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| Plants with milky latex juice. Leaves usually opposite, entire, and simple. Flowers in terminal umbel-like clusters with 5 swept-back petals with a 5-parted cup that has 5 small horns curving onto the center part made up of united stamens and stigma. Fruits a long pod which splits to reveal many seeds with a fluffy floss used to disperse them by the wind. | |
| Flower Formula: Sepals 5; Petals (5) | Glossary |
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| Asclepias
milkweed |
14 |  |
Not a vine. | Images Information |
| Vincetoxicum
swallow-wort |
1 |  |
Vine. | Images Information |
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