page_title: Asclepias fascicularis
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Asclepias fascicularis / Description
caption_attribution_description: Asclepias fascicularis — Narrowleaf milkweed, close-up of flowers. Photographed at the Voorhis Ecological Reserve, BioTrek at Cal Poly Pomona, California. Contributed and © by Curtis Clark. Licensed as noted.
context_page_description: Asclepias fascicularis is a species of milkweed known by the common names narrowleaf milkweed and Mexican whorled milkweed.
context_section_description: Asclepias fascicularis is a flowering perennial sending up many thin, erect stems and bearing distinctive long pointed leaves which are very narrow and often whorled about the stem, giving the plant its common names.
  It blooms in clusters of lavender, pale pink, purple, white, to greenish shades of flowers. They have five reflexed lobes that extend down away from the blossom.
  The fruit pods are the smooth milkweed type, which split open to spill seeds along with plentiful silky hairs. They bloom from late spring to late summer.
caption: Closeup of flowers
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