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Asclepias syriaca
Asclepias syriaca
Asclepias syriaca

Wikipedia description

Asclepias syriaca, commonly called common milkweed, butterfly flower, silkweed, silky swallow-wort, and Virginia silkweed, is a species of flowering plant. It is in the genus Asclepias, the milkweeds. This species is native to southern Canada and of much of the conterminous eastern U.S., east of the Rocky Mountains, excluding the drier parts of the prairies. It grows in sandy soils and other kinds of soils in sunny areas. It was one of the earliest North American species described in Cornut's 1635 work Canadensium Plantarum Historia. The specific name was reused by Linnaeus due to Cornut's confusion with a species from Asia Minor.

Scientific classification

Clade: Core Eudicots/Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Species: Asclepias syriaca

Samples

Sample nameSample codeTissueRNA extractorSample providerBLASTSRA dataAssembly data
YADI-Asclepias_syriacaYADI--J. Leebens-MackJ. Leebens-Mack