In Northcentral South Dakota Are Found, Two Milkweed Plants. The Larger Is Just Starting To Bloom. … Approximately June 17, 2002 .

US-12 about 3 miles East of Mobridge, SD. I had stopped along US-12, on the eastern edge of the Missouri River Valley, to photograph the beautiful sight of a huge body of water in a water starved land.
…On the way back to the car I found these Milkweeds. (Asclepias species, probably Asclepias Syriaca called Common Milkweed). They are just like the ones on our Ohio farm of my youth.
…All over South Carolina, there is a (related species), called the Sandhill Milkweed (Asclepias humistrata). Although it has parts that look similar, it is a distinctly different species.

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Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)

Sandhill Milkweed (Asclepias humistrata)

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