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red milkweed
Asclepias rubra
Asclepias rubra, the red milkweed, purple savanna milkweed, or tall pink bog milkweed, is a species of milkweed. It inhabits bogs and wetlands. It is a perennial wetland species, native to New York, south to Florida, west to Arkansas and Texas.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 143553.