Английская Википедия:Asclepias albicans

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Asclepias albicans is a species of milkweed known by the common names whitestem milkweed and wax milkweed. It is native to the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts of California, Arizona, and Baja California. This is a spindly erect shrub usually growing Шаблон:Convert tall,[1] but known to approach 4 meters. The sticklike branches are mostly naked, the younger ones coated in a waxy residue and a thin layer of woolly hairs. The leaves are ephemeral, growing in whorls of three on the lower branches and falling off after a short time. They are linear in shape and up to Шаблон:Convert long. The inflorescence is an umbel about Шаблон:Convert wide[1] which appears at the tips of the long branches and sprouting from the sides at nodes. The inflorescence contains many purple-tinted greenish flowers, each about Шаблон:Convert wide,[1] with a central array of bulbous hoods, and corollas reflexed back against the stalk. In its native range it is an evergreen perennial. The plant usually blooms all year long.[1] The fruit is a large, long, thick follicle which dangles from the branch nodes.

Asclepias albicans is a larval host for the monarch butterfly and the queen butterfly. [2] [3]

The similar A. subulata is found in similar regions.[1]

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