Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Asclepias texana
Asclepias texana A. Heller
Texas Milkweed, White Milkweed
Asclepiadaceae (Milkweed Family)
USDA Symbol: ASTEUSDA Native Status: L48 (N)
Specimen & Label Data
Asclepias texana
Texas Milkweed
Asclepiadaceae
Location: Hwy 16, 5.6 km NW of Helotes, on S side of road.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: In road cut of limestone at base of slanting limestone facing north with afternoon shade.
Description: Branched, erct, 6 dm tall, 4.5 dm wide; well branched leaves eliptic to lanceolate or obovate; sap milky; three umbel clusters of flowers which are white, distinctive pod stiffly, upwardly errect.
County: Bexar
Collector: Mike Fox
Collection Date: Aug 20, 1994
Specimen number: 115
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0916
Accession Date: Aug 24, 1994
Accession Number: 67
Annotations: (In flower & fruit)