Scientific name: Asclepias variegata L. Common name: Redring Milkweed, White Milkweed Family: Asclepiadaceae Origin: Native Flowering records: May- June Habitat: roadsides, open woods Image : Asclepias variegata L., Redring Milkweed , at the Road of Remembrance, "Old Stretch Road" in flatwoods at the Berry College Campus, Mt. Berry, Floyd County, Northwest Georgia, Southeastern United States; May 23, 2009 Comments: Alvin W. Chapman (1809 - 1899) collected Asclepias variegata L. in Rome, Floyd County, Georgia. Chapman's collection of Asclepias variegata L., AUA 261 , is at Auburn University Herbarium, Auburn, in Alabama.

Description: ""Stem stout, leafless below, pubescent in lines; leaves oval, oblong, or obovate, cuspidate, smooth on both sides; umbels 3-5, pubescent, closely flowered, the upper ones corymbose; pedicles erect, as long as the peduncle; corolla white; leaves of the crown roundish, longer than the purplish gynostegium, equaling the thick awl-pointed incurved horn. - Stem 2-3 feet (60- 91 cm) high, purplish. Leaves rather thick, 2-3 inches (5-7 cm) long. Peduncles 9-12 lines (19-25 mm) long." - Alvin W. Chapman, 1884.

References:
1. Auburn University Herbarium http://www.auburn.edu/academic/science_math/botany/herbarium/ Department of Biological Sciences Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849
2. Chapman, A. W. Flora of the southern United States 2nd ed. Supplement. New York: American Book Company, 1884: 362.
3. Image by Zvezdana Ukropina-Crawford
4. USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database, (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

Last updated on January 9, 2011.

Alvin W. Chapman's Collection from Floyd County, Georgia (1872-1891)
Botanical Exploration in Floyd County, Georgia
Flatwoods: Berry College Campus