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§1 Plant

Asclepias tuberosa L. ssp. tuberosa

vernacular butterfly milkweed — subspecies · Asclepiadaceae


USDA
ASTUT2
GBIF
10028601
Rank
subspecies
butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa ssp. tuberosa)
Platephotograph · Michael J. PapayCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§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

· 243 counties across 14 states/territories
Legend Native · 243 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 243 counties across 14 states/territories.

Delaware view state ↗ 3 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Georgia view state ↗ 2 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 2 N
Maine view state ↗ 1 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 3 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 3 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 18 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 92 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 N
Vermont view state ↗ 2 N
Virginia view state ↗ 100 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ASTUT2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/10028601 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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