Calflora: Asclepias eriocarpa

Asclepias eriocarpa Benth.

Indian milkweed, Kotolo milkweed

Asclepias eriocarpa, 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:	Yellow Pine Forest, Red Fir Forest, Lodgepole Forest, Foothill Woodland, Chaparral, Valley Grassland, (many plant communities)
Toxicity:	MINOR, DERMATITIS [California Poison Control System 2010]
Elevation:	between 0 and 7000 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:
(according to)

PLANTS:	Asclepias eriocarpa var. microcarpa
PLANTS:	Asclepias fremontii

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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.
	There are documented records, vouchered or confirmed by an expert.
	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.

Butte: 16 / 13 CCH Colusa: 1 / 1 CCH Fresno: 18 / 14 CCH Glenn: 1 / 1 CCH Humboldt: 1 / 1 CCH Kern: 27 / 25 CCH Lake: 22 / 20 CCH Los Angeles: 71 / 57 CCH Madera: 2 / 2 CCH Mendocino: 13 / 9 CCH Merced: 2 / 2 CCH Monterey: 40 / 21 CCH Mariposa: 2 / 1 CCH Napa: 14 / 8 CCH Nevada: 5 / 3 CCH Orange: 18 / 12 CCH Plumas: 2 / 2 CCH Riverside: 62 / 40 CCH Santa Barbara: 24 / 20 CCH San Bernardino: 55 / 52 CCH San Benito: 4 / 2 CCH San Diego: 86 / 79 CCH Shasta: 4 / 4 CCH San Luis Obispo: 24 / 22 CCH Solano: 1 / 1 CCH Sonoma: 1 / 0 CCH Sutter: 2 / 1 CCH Tehama: 16 / 14 CCH Trinity: 3 / 3 CCH Tulare: 21 / 16 CCH Tuolumne: 1 / 1 CCH Ventura: 38 / 31 CCH Yolo: 6 / 5 CCH

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

Information about Asclepias eriocarpa from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (ASER)
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