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§1 Plant
Asclepias perennis Walter
vernacular aquatic 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
· 204 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 204 counties across 7 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Bradley 05011
- Clay 05021
- Craighead 05031
- Crittenden 05035
- Dallas 05039
- Desha 05041
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Greene 05055
- Jackson 05067
- Jefferson 05069
- Lawrence 05075
- Lee 05077
- Lincoln 05079
- Miller 05091
- Mississippi 05093
- Monroe 05095
- Ouachita 05103
- Phillips 05107
- Poinsett 05111
- Prairie 05117
- Pulaski 05119
- Randolph 05121
- St. Francis 05123
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- White 05145
Florida view state ↗ 40 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Baker 12003
- Calhoun 12013
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Columbia 12023
- DeSoto 12027
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gilchrist 12041
- Hardee 12049
- Holmes 12059
- Jackson 12063
- Jefferson 12065
- Lafayette 12067
- Lake 12069
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Madison 12079
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- Suwannee 12121
- Taylor 12123
- Union 12125
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 56 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Beauregard 22011
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberville 22047
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. James 22093
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Webster 22119
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Alcorn 28003
- Attala 28007
- Bolivar 28011
- Calhoun 28013
- Claiborne 28021
- Clay 28025
- Coahoma 28027
- DeSoto 28033
- Greene 28041
- Hinds 28049
- Humphreys 28053
- Itawamba 28057
- Jefferson 28063
- Lafayette 28071
- Leake 28079
- Lee 28081
- Leflore 28083
- Madison 28089
- Monroe 28095
- Noxubee 28103
- Pearl River 28109
- Perry 28111
- Pontotoc 28115
- Quitman 28119
- Rankin 28121
- Sharkey 28125
- Tallahatchie 28135
- Tunica 28143
- Union 28145
- Washington 28151
- Wilkinson 28157
- Yazoo 28163
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ASPE ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3170346 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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