(A) Poke Milk-weed (Asclepias phytolaccoides ) is a 
tall species growing from 2 to 6 feet in height. The 
flowers composing its clusters are fewer in number 
than those of the common milkweed but much larger 
and of a clear, ivory-white color. The flower stems 
are long and slender so that the entire cluster is in a 
nodding position, it being the only one of the genus 
in which all the flowers are pendent. Poke Milkweed is 
found, usually in dry situations, along the edges of 
woods or along roadsides, from Me. to Minn, and south¬ 
wards. It flowers from June until August. 
(B) Whorled Milkweed (Asclepias verticillata) is 
a very slender species, common in dry woods and on 
prairies in the South; found north to Mass, and Sas¬ 
katchewan. The stem is slender, simple and rises 
from 1 to 3 feet high. The narrow linear leaves have 
their margins rolled under; they grow in closely clus¬ 
tered whorls about the stem, usually quite erect. The 
numerous, small, greenish-white flowers grow in a round 
cluster or umbel at the summit of the stem. It is a 
very dainty species, one not apt to be confused with 
any other member of the family. 
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