General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Pollinators: Moths and Butterflies
Bees
Various insects
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil

Image
Common names
  • California Milkweed
  • Sierra Milkweed
  • Milkweed

Photo Gallery

Date: March
credit: Marshal Hedin
Location: Devil's Punchbowl County Park, California
Date: 2012-05-04
Location: North Carolian
Date: 2017-12-10
Asclepias californica seeds

Date: May
credit: Marshal Hedin

Date: May
credit: Joe Decruyenaere

« Add a new plant to the database

» Search the Milkweeds Database: by characteristics or by cultivar name

« See the general plant entry for Milkweeds (Asclepias)

« The Milkweeds Database Front Page

« The Plants Database Front Page

Today's site banner is by Visual_Botanics and is called "Bees and Butterflies"

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.