Eastern Whorled Milkweed

(Asclepias verticillata)

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habits: Erect, slender perennial herb, milky sap from stem

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from shallow taproot with deep rhizome

Leaf anatomy: Whorled, 3-6 leaves per node, simple, blades narrowly linear, rolled downward

Flowers: In umbels, borne in clusters, 5 elliptic petals, greenish white to purple-tinged

_{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}