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golden star-drops
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golden star-drops

Asclepias aurea

Asclepias aurea, or golden star drops, is a species of perennial milkweed endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Eswatini, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Namibia, Zambia, and South Africa. It grows in grasslands and periodically burned montane. It blooms September to February.

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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 578664.