Texas Milkweed (Asclepias texana)
Description
Asclepias texana: What we have seen: Bright white flowers in a loosely packed umbel cluster ... just a hint of lavender or pink ... long central pedestal above petals. Dark, bright green, opposite, ovate leaves. As many as seven stems rising from the same spot where at times there still were one or two old stems from last year. Stems were as long as thirty inches. Most of these plants were found under juniper trees in the rocky soil of the Texas hill county. The long thin seed pods were about five inches in length. These plants were growing wild in northwest Bexar County.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Gentianales
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Family: Apocynaceae
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Genus: Asclepias
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