Asclepias latifolia

Broadleaf milkweed

Family: Apocynaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Broadleaf milkweed is a California native perennial found in the North Coast Ranges Interior (specifically noted from a historical Yolo County record) in dry washes at approximately 150 meters elevation. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces cream-green flowers with purple-tinged undertones, featuring distinctive reflexed or spreading corollas. Growing with erect, very hairy stems that become less hairy with age, it develops a robust herbaceous form. Its opposite leaves are wide-elliptic to lanceolate, with bases that are tapered or obtuse and tips that are often notched or truncate, measuring generally 7 to 8 millimeters long. The plant produces erect fruits on slightly reflexed pedicels, adding to its distinctive woodland appearance.

Habitat: dry washes

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: +- 150 m.

Bioregions: NCoRI (Rumsey, Yolo Co., 1912, extirpated)

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