Asclepias syriaca

TaxID: 48545

Basic Information

Asclepias syriaca

Broadleaf Milkweed, Common Milkweed

Asclepias syriaca, commonly called common milkweed, butterfly flower, silkweed, silky swallow-wort, and Virginia silkweed, is a species of flowering plant. It is native to southern Canada and much of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, excluding the drier parts of the prairies. It is in the genus Asclepias, the milkweeds. It grows in sandy soils as well as other kinds of soils in sunny areas.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Gentianales

Apocynaceae

Asclepias

syriaca

nan

Photos (0 photos)

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Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (31 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Austria IAS of Union concern 2017
Belgium IAS of Union concern 2017
Bulgaria IAS of Union concern 2017
Switzerland List of Invasive Alien Plants 2014
Cyprus IAS of Union concern 2017
Czechia IAS of Union concern 2017
Germany IAS of Union concern 2017
Denmark IAS of Union concern 2017
Spain IAS of Union concern 2017
Estonia IAS of Union concern 2017
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Distribution (40 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
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Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Australia Present —
Austria Present —
Belgium Present —
Bulgaria Present —
Bosnia and Herzegovina Present —
Belarus Present —
Bermuda Present —
Canada Present
Switzerland Present —
China Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_002018285.1 Scaffold 236 1 1 -

Transcriptomes (2 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR934064 leaf - - 51301916 -
SRR5120440 Leaf Mature - 64772831 USA:Illinois

DNA Barcodes (20 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
WAT254-12 - rbcLa 553 Canada 2012-08-02 43.6833, -80.4333
WABLK478-13 - trnH-psbA 460 United States - 45.635, -88.342
WABLK457-13 - rbcLa 542 United States - 44.53, -87.923
WABLK367-13 - trnH-psbA 431 United States - 44.469, -88.182
VEMSH237-13 - rbcLa 570 Canada 2012-06-22 45.535, -73.149
PLNOR092-08 - rbcLa 552 Canada 2007-07-18 42.765, -80.303
NLFLM3892-16 - matK 858 Netherlands 2013-07-21 52.294, 4.473
KSR133-07 - trnH-psbA 461 Canada 2006-07-04 44.03, -79.536
JRPAA9793-15 - COI-5P 1575 - - -
JRPAA6990-15 - COI-5P 1575 - - -
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Literature