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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Traits & measurements3 literature sources9 traits
Chemical compositionLOTUS1 compounds
Occurrence & distributionGBIF3 301 records
DNA & barcodingNCBIsequences
01Narrative
Asclepias humistrata, the sandhill milkweed, is a species of milkweed plant. It is also known as pinewoods milkweed and pink-veined milkplant. It belongs in the subfamily Asclepiadoideae. It is native to the southeastern United States. It blooms in spring and summer. The flowers are pink lavender and white.Rufino Osorieo (2001). A Gardener's Guide to Florida's Native Plants. University Press of Florida. It is found in well-drained areas such as sandy woodlands, sandy hills, and Florida scrub. Sandhill milkweed likes dry soil and sunny places. It grows from 0.3 to tall.William Cullina (2000). Wildflowers: A Guide to Growing and Propagating Native Flowers of North America. The New England Wildflower Society.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Compounds documented for Asclepias humistrata across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Asclepias humistrata has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
Marker genes2
GenBank sequences5
Countries1
The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
★matK2★rbcL3
plant barcode
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type3 301 records
Wild obs. + sensor2 968
Museum / vouchered333
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO6 296 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy76% within 1 km
≤100 m 1 547≤1 km 308≤10 km 116>10 km 466
2 437 georeferenced · 531 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor2 968
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Coordinate accuracy13% within 1 km
≤100 m 8≤1 km 8≤10 km 45>10 km 66
127 georeferenced · 206 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence333
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions28 of 41 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Jena Microbial Resource Collectionlocation not on record
52
Tampa, US
40
Chicago, US
25
Bangkok, TH
20
Miami, US
17
Jackson, US
17
Philadelphia, US
12
Mississippi State, US
10
US
10
St. Paul, US
9
AUAlocation not on record
9
Bronx, US
8
Wuzhou, CN
7
Tuscaloosa, US
7
DOI/NPS, Mississippi National River & Recreation Arealocation not on record
7
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
7
Tall Timbers Research Stationlocation not on record
6
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
6
Columbia, US
5
Saint Louis, US
4
Chapel Hill, US
4
Clemson, US
4
Austin, US
4
Valdosta State Universitylocation not on record
3
Knoxville, US
3
GAlocation not on record
3
University of Southern Mississippilocation not on record
2
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
2
Williamsburg, US
2
Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preservelocation not on record
2
Appalachian State Universitylocation not on record
2
Burlington, US
2
Madison, US
2
Bloomington, US
2
San Angelo, US
2
Kew, GB
1
Flagstaff, US
1
Millersville, US
1
Asheville, US
1
Fort Worth, US
1
McWane Science Centerlocation not on record
1
41 institutions · 323 of 333 vouchered records shown · 10 without an institution code
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