Calflora: Asclepias cordifolia

Asclepias cordifolia (Benth.) Jepson

Purple Milkweed, heart leaf milkweed, heartleaf milkweed

Asclepias cordifolia, a dicot, is a perennial herb that is native to California and is also found outside of California, but is confined to western North America.

Communities:	Chaparral, Foothill Woodland, Yellow Pine Forest, Mixed Evergreen Forest
Habitat:	slopes [Walker]
Toxicity:	MINOR, DERMATITIS [California Poison Control System 2010]
Elevation:	between 0 and 6300 feet
Family:	APOCYNACEAE (CNPS + PLANTS: ASCLEPIADACEAE)
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Asclepias found in California.

Name Status:

Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

Other Names:
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PLANTS:

Gomphocarpus cordifolius

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Distribution by County:

See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
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	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Alpine: 4 / 2 CCH Amador: 16 / 14 CCH Butte: 38 / 33 CCH Calaveras: 9 / 7 CCH Contra Costa: 9 / 4 CCH Colusa: 10 / 8 CCH Del Norte: 1 / 1 CCH El Dorado: 30 / 22 CCH Fresno: 18 / 10 CCH Glenn: 3 / 1 CCH Humboldt: 16 / 15 CCH Kern: 13 / 12 CCH Lake: 24 / 23 CCH Lassen: 10 / 7 CCH Madera: 9 / 7 CCH Mendocino: 6 / 4 CCH Modoc: 20 / 18 CCH Mariposa: 23 / 20 CCH Napa: 9 / 7 CCH Nevada: 19 / 14 CCH Orange: 1 / 1 CCH Placer: 25 / 18 CCH Plumas: 27 / 21 CCH Sacramento: 16 / 7 CCH San Bernardino: 1 / 1 CCH San Diego: 1 / 1 CCH Shasta: 17 / 11 CCH Sierra: 10 / 10 CCH Siskiyou: 29 / 28 CCH San Luis Obispo: 1 / 1 CCH San Mateo: 1 / 1 CCH Solano: 9 / 7 CCH Sonoma: 8 / 2 CCH Stanislaus: 1 / 1 CCH Sutter: 7 / 5 CCH Tehama: 10 / 8 CCH Trinity: 33 / 30 CCH Tulare: 24 / 22 CCH Tuolumne: 28 / 21 CCH Ventura: 1 / 1 CCH Yolo: 5 / 5 CCH Yuba: 3 / 3 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Asclepias cordifolia from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (ASCO)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database