Asclepias purpurascens L. in the Flatwoods of the Berry College Campus, Oostanaula River Valley, Mt. Berry, Georgia. May 20, 2000.	Image of Asclepias purpurascens L., a herbarium specimen, collected on the Road of Remembrance in the Flatwoods of the Berry College Campus on May 20, 1994.

Scientific name: Asclepias purpurascens L.
Common name: Purple milkweed
Family: Asclepiadaceae; Milkweed
Origin: Native
Legal Status: (S1)- Critically imperiled in Georgia
Fruiting period: late May-early June

Description: "Perennial herb, stem simple 50cm-1m tall, smooth or from the nodes pubescent. Leaves ovate-elliptic, opposite in more than 6 pairs, 10-16 cm long, 5-9 cm wide with petiole. Flowers in 1-3 terminal umbels, 4-7 cm broad. Deep rose to purple corolla, lobes 7-10 mm long, reflexed, corona 5-8 mm wide, hoods 5-7 mm long and horns shorter than hoods."

Last updated on November 12, 2007.

References:
1. Ahles, and C. Ritchie Bell. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1968.(852.)
2. Peterson, Roger T., and Margaret McKenny. A Field Guide to Wildflowers. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. (294.)
3. Image by Zvezdana Ukropina-Crawford
4. Zvezdana Ukropina-Crawford's herbarium collection from 1994.

Botanical explorations in Floyd County, Georgia