Pronunciation: as-KLEEP-ee-as VES-ti-ta
Common name: Woolly milkweed
Family: Asclepiadaceae (Milkweed)
Habitat: Dry flats and slopes, desert canyons to
4500', Transverse Range, Mojave Desert
Blooming period: April to June
Click for Latin name derivations: 1) Asclepias
2) vestita
NOTE: Photo taken in Antelope Valley, may be the
var. called parishii which is not listed separately in
the Jepson Manual