Index / Search / Asclepias arenaria
§1 Plant
Asclepias arenaria Torr.
vernacular sand 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
· 101 counties across 7 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 101 counties across 7 states/territories.
Colorado view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Barber 20007
- Cheyenne 20023
- Cloud 20029
- Comanche 20033
- Edwards 20047
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Graham 20065
- Grant 20067
- Gray 20069
- Hamilton 20075
- Hodgeman 20083
- Kearny 20093
- Logan 20109
- Morton 20129
- Pawnee 20145
- Pratt 20151
- Rice 20159
- Riley 20161
- Rooks 20163
- Saline 20169
- Seward 20175
- Shawnee 20177
- Sheridan 20179
- Stafford 20185
- Wallace 20199
Nebraska view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Arthur 31005
- Boyd 31015
- Brown 31017
- Buffalo 31019
- Cherry 31031
- Cheyenne 31033
- Cuming 31039
- Custer 31041
- Deuel 31049
- Dundy 31057
- Franklin 31061
- Garden 31069
- Garfield 31071
- Hall 31079
- Holt 31089
- Howard 31093
- Kearney 31099
- Keith 31101
- Lincoln 31111
- Loup 31115
- McPherson 31117
- Perkins 31135
- Phelps 31137
- Platte 31141
- Sheridan 31161
- Thomas 31171
- Wheeler 31183
New Mexico view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 14 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ASAR ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3170290 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
fetched 2026-05-26T10:50:45Z