Pronunciation: few-NAS-trum her-TEL-um
Common name: Hairy milkweed
Family: Apocynaceae (Dogbane)
Habitat: Washes, desert pavement below 3500', creosote
bush scrub, Colorado and eastern Mojave Desert
Blooming period: March to May
Click for Latin name derivations: 1) Funastrum
2) hirtellum
Formerly Sarcostemma hirtellum