Index / Search / Asclepias syriaca

§1 Plant

Asclepias syriaca L.

vernacular common milkweed — species · Asclepiadaceae


USDA
ASSY
GBIF
3170247
Rank
species
common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
Platephotograph · csozanneCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Asclepiadaceae Borkh.
Genus
Asclepias
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 1,194 counties across 32 states/territories
Legend Native · 1194 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 1,194 counties across 32 states/territories.

Arkansas view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 102 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 71 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 25 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 68 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 72 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 76 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 59 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 83 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 52 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 18 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 39 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 27 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 86 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 65 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 25 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 30 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 93 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 47 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 69 N ▾
Wyoming view state ↗ 2 N ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ASSY ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3170247 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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