Wildflowers Identified: Purple Milkweed

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Purple Milkweed has these characteristics:

• 5 petals
  
• tubular petals
  
• in an umbel (flowers in an umbrella-like cluster, with stalks radiating from one point)
  
• 1/8 to 3/8 inches flower width
  
• 3/8 to 5/8 inches flower width
  
• pink to red flower color
  
• yellow to orange flower color
  
• blue to purple flower color
  
• blooms in May
  
• blooms in June
  
• blooms in July
  
• blooms in August
  
• plant height two feet or more
  
• leaf petiole present (has a leafstalk)
  
• leaf petiole absent (has no leafstalk)
  
• opposite one another leaf arrangement on the stem
  
• arrangement of leaves on stem is whorled (three or more from a point)
  
• smooth leaf edges
  
• branched leaf veins
  
• simple leaves about 1 1/2 to 5 times as long as wide
  
• stem is hairy or spiny
  

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