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{{SPlantbox
| color = lightgreen
|familia=Apocynaceae
| name = Whorled milkweed
|genus=Asclepias
| image =
|species=verticillata
| regnum = [[Plantae]]
|Temp Metric=°F
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
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|image=Asclepias verticillata.jpg
|image_width=200
| binomial = ''Asclepias verticillata''
| binomial_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]
}}
}}
'''''Asclepias verticillata''''' ('''Whorled Milkweed'''<ref name="plants">[http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ASVE USDA PLANTS Database]</ref>, or '''Horsetail Milkweed''') is a species of [[milkweed]] which is used as a [[medicinal plant]] <ref>[http://www.lib.ksu.edu/wildflower/whorledmilk.html Wildflowers and Grasses of Kansas]</ref> by Native American tribes.
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Asclepias verticillata, Linn. About 2 ft., slender, very leafy: Lvs. in whorls of 3-6, very narrow-linear and revolute: fls. greenish white, in many small umbels. Dry soil; frequent. L.B.C. 11:1067.
Var. pumila, Gray. A few inches high from a fascicled root: Lvs. filiform, crowded. Plains, W.
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
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