WILD FLOWERS PINK 
usually smooth stalk is slender and branched. It is 
leafy to the top, and grows from two to four feet high. 
The leaves are long lance-shaped, tapered at the apex 
and narrowed toward the base, where they are some- 
times slightly heart-shaped. The veins are ascending 
and not spreading as in the preceding species. Neither 
has this plant an abundance of milky juice. The 
leaves grow in alternating pairs, and are set on short 
stout stems. The numerous flowers are arranged in 
several rather small, loose terminal and flat-topped, 
clusters. They are not large and the corolla is red 
or rose-purple, rarely white. The lobes are oblong, and 
the pink or purplish hoods are shorter than the enclosed, 
incurved horns. The stems of the slender pods are 
not crooked. 
The Hairy Milkweed, A. pulchra, is a more northern 
species with shorter stemmed, broader leaves, and 
lighter coloured flowers. It is more or less hairy, 
and the stalk is stout. It ranges from Maine to 
Minnesota and south to Georgia. 
COMMON MILKWEED. SILKWEED 
Asclépias syriaca. Milkweed Family. 
This is undoubtedly the most familiar of the Milk- 
weeds. It is found everywhere in fields and along wood 
and roadsides during June, July, and August, from 
New Brunswick and Saskatchewan to North Carolina 
and Kansas. Its presence is said to be an indication 
of rich rather than poor soil. The sticky, milky juice 
of this species is less copious than that of the Purple 
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