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§1 Plant
Asclepias pumila (A. Gray) Vail
vernacular plains milkweed — species · Asclepiadaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asclepiadaceae Borkh.
- Genus
- Asclepias
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 184 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 184 counties across 10 states/territories.
Colorado view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 54 N ▾
- Barber 20007
- Barton 20009
- Cheyenne 20023
- Clark 20025
- Cloud 20029
- Decatur 20039
- Edwards 20047
- Ellis 20051
- Ellsworth 20053
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Gove 20063
- Graham 20065
- Grant 20067
- Gray 20069
- Greeley 20071
- Hamilton 20075
- Harper 20077
- Haskell 20081
- Hodgeman 20083
- Jewell 20089
- Kearny 20093
- Kiowa 20097
- Lane 20101
- Logan 20109
- Marion 20115
- Meade 20119
- Morton 20129
- Ness 20135
- Osborne 20141
- Ottawa 20143
- Pawnee 20145
- Phillips 20147
- Pratt 20151
- Rawlins 20153
- Reno 20155
- Republic 20157
- Riley 20161
- Rooks 20163
- Rush 20165
- Russell 20167
- Saline 20169
- Scott 20171
- Seward 20175
- Sheridan 20179
- Sherman 20181
- Smith 20183
- Stafford 20185
- Stanton 20187
- Stevens 20189
- Thomas 20193
- Trego 20195
- Wallace 20199
- Wichita 20203
Montana view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Banner 31007
- Box Butte 31013
- Buffalo 31019
- Chase 31029
- Cherry 31031
- Cheyenne 31033
- Clay 31035
- Custer 31041
- Dawes 31045
- Dixon 31051
- Dundy 31057
- Franklin 31061
- Frontier 31063
- Garden 31069
- Gosper 31073
- Hitchcock 31087
- Holt 31089
- Kearney 31099
- Keya Paha 31103
- Lancaster 31109
- Lincoln 31111
- Perkins 31135
- Phelps 31137
- Red Willow 31145
- Sarpy 31153
- Sheridan 31161
- Sioux 31165
- Thomas 31171
- Webster 31181
New Mexico view state ↗ 7 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 12 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Aurora 46003
- Beadle 46005
- Brookings 46011
- Brule 46015
- Buffalo 46017
- Charles Mix 46023
- Clay 46027
- Custer 46033
- Douglas 46043
- Fall River 46047
- Haakon 46055
- Harding 46063
- Hughes 46065
- Jackson 46071
- Lawrence 46081
- Lyman 46085
- Meade 46093
- Mellette 46095
- Pennington 46103
- Perkins 46105
- Stanley 46117
- Todd 46121
Texas view state ↗ 22 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ASPU ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3170288 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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