Asclepias albicans S.Watson

국표에 없다.

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 1 to 3 meters (3+1⁄2 to 10 feet) tall, 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 3 centimeters (1+1⁄4 inches) long. The inflorescence is an umbel about 5 cm (2 in) wide 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 1.5 cm (1⁄2 in) wide, with a central array of bulbous hoods, and corollas reflexed back against the stalk. The plant usually blooms from March to May. The fruit is a large, long, thick follicle which dangles in bunches from the branch nodes.

The similar A. subulata is found in similar regions.

Asclepias albicans - Wikipedia

 

 

https://youtu.be/QO-wt0a7_Ho

https://youtu.be/y0vMIE1gapM