DIVERSITY OF LIFE TOMPKINS COUNTY FLORA
Asclepias tuberosaL.
Mitchell NYNYFA TCUSDA NY
accepted accepted accepted
Butterfly-Weed, Chigger Flower, Butterfly Milkweed, Pleurisy Root

Apocynaceae

CAYUGA FLORA (1926) NOTES: Dry sandy and loamy banks, rarely in sandy shale talus, usually if not always in noncalcareous soils; infrequent. July. Case. Cr., Fall Cr., and all the ravines (D.) ; abundant on Cayuga L. shore, McKinneys to Aurora (D.) ; near Valley Cemetery, s. of Ithaca; Coy Glen;Cayuga Heights; occasional along e. side of Cayuga Lake; around the ponds and bogs at Junius. By no means so abundant as Dudley would imply. N. H. to Minn., southw. to Fla.. Tex., and Ariz., including the Coastal Plain.


BH SPECIMENS FOR Asclepias tuberosa (this list may be incomplete)
 Ithaca, Devil's Glen, 1 Aug 1876, anonymous (BH 149679);
 Ithaca, Cayuga Heights, Muenscher garden, 13 Jul 1935, anonymous (BH 248468);
 Ithaca, Hill E of Indian Spring, 22 Jul 1875, anonymous (BH 149680);
 Ithaca, Coy Glen, 25 Jul 1955, Dilger WCD271 (BH 113237);
 Ithaca, , Fagley (BH 113238);
 Ithaca, Cascadilla Woods, 26 Jul 1885, anonymous (BH 13209);
 Ithaca, Six Mile Creek, 24 Jul 1876, anonymous (BH 13218);
 Ithaca, South Hill, back of Morse Chain Works, brushy slope, 5 Jul 1936, Allen 19446 (BH 13214);
 Ithaca, dry fields, 7 Jul 1920, Bailey (BH 13208);
 Ithaca, Jul 1875, Dudley (BH 13215);
 Ithaca, Cayuga Heights, dry opening in woods, 13 Sep 1915, Eames 4839 (BH 13212);
 Ithaca, Coy Glen, 25 Sep 1920, Eames 13786a (BH 13217);
 Ithaca, on hill north of Coy Glen, clayey roadside, 28 Jul 1913, Eames 967 (BH 13216);
 Ithaca, south of Coy Glen, dry field, 29 Aug 1915, Eames 4838 (BH 13213);
 Ithaca, south of Coy Glen, dry field, 17 Jul 1915, Eames & MacDaniels 4838 (BH 13211);   VEmap  GOOmap
 Ithaca, south of Coy Glen, dry hillside pasture, 9 Aug 1915, MacDaniels 4840 (BH 13210);
 Lansing, Myers Point, 16 Jul 1972, Rehr (BH 13206);
 without locality, 7 Jul 1891, Rhodes (BH 58518);
 Ithaca, near Coy Glen, old fields, common, 1 Jul 1934, Smith 1070 (BH 13207);

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