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§1 Plant
Asclepias asperula (Decne.) Woodson
vernacular spider milkweed — species · Asclepiadaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asclepiadaceae Borkh.
- Genus
- Asclepias
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 205 counties across 10 states/territories§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 205 counties across 10 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 14 N ▾
California view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 23 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 5 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Beaver 40007
- Beckham 40009
- Blaine 40011
- Bryan 40013
- Caddo 40015
- Carter 40019
- Cimarron 40025
- Cleveland 40027
- Comanche 40031
- Custer 40039
- Ellis 40045
- Garfield 40047
- Grady 40051
- Greer 40055
- Harmon 40057
- Jackson 40065
- Johnston 40069
- Kay 40071
- Kingfisher 40073
- Kiowa 40075
- McClain 40087
- McCurtain 40089
- Murray 40099
- Oklahoma 40109
- Payne 40119
- Pottawatomie 40125
- Roger Mills 40129
- Stephens 40137
- Texas 40139
- Woods 40151
- Woodward 40153
Texas view state ↗ 78 N ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Andrews 48003
- Aransas 48007
- Bandera 48019
- Bastrop 48021
- Bell 48027
- Blanco 48031
- Bosque 48035
- Brewster 48043
- Brown 48049
- Burnet 48053
- Caldwell 48055
- Callahan 48059
- Carson 48065
- Castro 48069
- Childress 48075
- Coleman 48083
- Collingsworth 48087
- Comal 48091
- Comanche 48093
- Cooke 48097
- Coryell 48099
- Crockett 48105
- Culberson 48109
- Dallas 48113
- Denton 48121
- DeWitt 48123
- Donley 48129
- Eastland 48133
- Edwards 48137
- El Paso 48141
- Ellis 48139
- Erath 48143
- Fayette 48149
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Goliad 48175
- Gonzales 48177
- Grayson 48181
- Hamilton 48193
- Hardeman 48197
- Harris 48201
- Hays 48209
- Hood 48221
- Hudspeth 48229
- Irion 48235
- Jackson 48239
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jim Wells 48249
- Johnson 48251
- Jones 48253
- Karnes 48255
- Kendall 48259
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- Llano 48299
- Lubbock 48303
- McLennan 48309
- Oldham 48359
- Parker 48367
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Reeves 48389
- San Patricio 48409
- San Saba 48411
- Schleicher 48413
- Scurry 48415
- Shackelford 48417
- Stephens 48429
- Sutton 48435
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Travis 48453
- Val Verde 48465
- Washington 48477
- Williamson 48491
- Wise 48497
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ASAS ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/8683730 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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