Common Milkweed, Butterfly Flower, Silkweed, Silky Swallow-wort, or Virginia Silkweed
Asclepias syriaca
                    
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left Common Milkweed Flowers Asclepias syriaca Photograph right
 
2006 Photograph, Common Milkweed, Butterfly Flower, Silkweed, Silky Swallow-wort, or Virginia Silkweed (Asclepias syriaca, Dogbane family, Apocynaceae), flowers in various stages of opening, from bud to flower,  Occoquan Bay NWR, Woodbridge, Virginia, © 2020.
Jian Zhe Li

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