Asclepias curassavica (Asclepiadaceae)

Asclepias curassavica
(Asclepiadaceae)

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Species description or overview	Taxonomy & nomenclature	Impacts	Images
Herbarium specimens	Distribution	Books	Bibliography

Species description or overview

Asclepias curassavica information from PIER
Information on Asclepias curassavica as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).

Taxonomy & nomenclature

GRIN nomenclature info for Asclepias curassavica
Nomenclatural information about Asclepias curassavica is provided by USDA/ARS/NGRP/GRIN.

ITIS nomenclature info for Asclepias curassavica
Nomenclatural information about Asclepias curassavica is provided by ITIS.

IPNI nomenclature info for Asclepias curassavica
Nomenclatural information about Asclepias curassavica is provided by The International Plant Names Index (IPNI).

Impacts

Asclepias curassavica (Asclepiadaceae): species information from GCW
Information on Asclepias curassavica as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).

Images

Images of Asclepias curassavica (Asclepiadaceae) (butterfly weed, bloodflower, laulele, pua anuhe)
Links to high-resolution free images of Asclepias curassavica (Asclepiadaceae) (butterfly weed, bloodflower, laulele, pua anuhe) by Forest & Kim Starr (USGS) are available here.

Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands info for Asclepias curassavica
Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (Wagner, W. L., D. R. Herbst, and D. H. Lorence. 2005-. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website. http://ravenel.si.edu/botany/pacificislandbiodiversity/hawaiianflora/index.htm [accessed Apr 2006])

Asclepias curassavica images from PIER
Images of Asclepias curassavica provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).

Herbarium specimens

Images of voucher specimens for Asclepias curassavica from the herbarium of Kalaupapa National Historical Park (Molokai, Hawaii, USA)
Images of voucher specimens of Asclepias curassavica from the herbarium of Kalaupapa National Historical Park (Molokai, Hawaii, USA) are available online.

Distribution

Books

Weed handbook of Western Polynesia
Whistler, W. Arthur. 1983. Weed handbook of Western Polynesia. Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft f#r Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH. ISBN: 3-88085-227-8. ISSN: (unknown or N/A).

Bibliography

References for Asclepias curassavica

Bibliographic references for Asclepias curassavica are provided by HEAR.

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