Background
This is the name of the Milkweed Subfamily
What is Asclepiadaceae?
This is the number of petals.
What is 5?
This is the type of venation they have.
This species is identified by a non-branching central stem.
What is the Common milkweed - Asclepias syriaca?
This is what it means to be a perennial.
What is living more than two years?
This is how long they live (annual or perennial)
What is Perennial?
This is the number of sepals.
What is 5 sepals?
This is the type of growth they usually take. (Woody, Herbaceous, etc.)
What is herbaceous?
The Whorled milkweed - Asclepias verticillata is named for this trait.
What is the whorled leaf attachment to stem?
This is what it means to be herbaceous.
What is not being woody?
This is how many genera of this subfamily live in North America.
What is 5?
This is the number of stamen and where they are fused.
What is 5 and fused to the ovary?
This is the growth form they usually take. (Vine, tree, etc.)
What are shrubs?
This milkweed grows in wetland conditions.
This iconic species heavily depends on milkweeds for food.
What is the Monarch butterfly - Danaus plexippus?
This is the type of cotyledon identification they have. (Eudicot or Monocot)
Eudicot
This is what type of fruit the milkweed has.
What is a follicle seed pod?
This is the type of leaf pattern the stalk has.
What is opposite, sometimes whorled?
This milkweed is named for the color in the center of its flowers.
What is the Redring milkweed - Asclepias variegata?
This is the number of species of Milkweed native to NC.
What is 16?
This is the name of the family this subfamily is apart of.
What is the Apocynaceae or Dogbane Family?
This is what is special about the milkweed corona.
This it the most obvious identifying vegetative trait that milkweeds have.
What is the milky sap?
What is Asclepias tuberosa (Butterfly weed)?
The "cot" in eudicot and dicot stands for cotyledon. This is what a cotyledon is.
What is/are the first leave(s) from the seed.