Type of Flowers
Asclepias Syrica: Asclepias syriaca, commonly called mutual milkweed, butterfly flower, silkweed, silky swallow-wort, as well as Virginia silkweed, is a species of flowering plant. It is inwards the genus Asclepias, the milkweeds. This species is native to Southern Canada as well as of much of the conterminous Eastern U.S., due east of the Rocky Mountains, excluding the drier parts of the Prairies. It grows inwards sandy soils as well as other kinds of soils inwards sunny areas. It was 1 of the earliest North American species described inwards Cornut's 1635 run Canadensium Plantarum Historia. The specific get upwardly was reused past times Linnaeus due to Cornut's confusion amongst a species from Asia Minor.
Common milkweed is a perennial herb growing upwardly to 2.6 1000 tall from a rhizome. The all parts of mutual milkweed plants hit white latex when broken. The leaves are contrary or sometimes whorled; simple, wide ovate-lanceolate; upwardly to 25 cm long as well as 12 cm broad, unremarkably amongst undulate margins as well as reddish psyche veins. They convey really brusk petioles as well as velvety undersides.
The fragrant,nectariferous flowers hap inwards umbellate cymes. Individual flowers are almost 1 cm inwards diameter, each amongst 5 cornate hoods as well as 5 pollinia. The seeds, each amongst long, white flossy hairs, hap inwards large follicles.
