Wooly Milkweed, Small Green Milkweed (Asclepias lanuginosa)

Picture of Wooly Milkweed

Synonym: Acerates lanuginosa

Status: threatened in Wisconsin

Habitat Description: dry hillside prairies

Habitat Classification
WI NHI: Dry Prairie, Sand Prairie, Oak Barrens
Curtis: Dry Prairie, Sand Prairie, Oak Barrens
Kotar:
Forest Cover:

Range: Columbia, Dane, Fond du Lac, Grant, Green, Green Lake, Iowa, Juneau, Kenosha, Portage, Racine, Rock, Sauk, Walworth, and Waukesha

Comments:

Phenology: flowers from late May through June

Field Guides:
Britton and Brown (Acerates lanuginosa), p.3:81/p.3:80
Gleason 1963, p.559
Gleason 1991, p.398
Zimmerman, p.26/p.27

Last Revised: June 12, 2006