Asclepias of the Desert Southwest
Project Managers:
Desert Research Learning Center
These checklists are companion to the NRCS Technical Note, Pollinator Plants of the Desert Southwest: Native Milkweeds (Asclepias spp.). These checklists are living checklists and are a data management system for Asclepias (milkweed) species found in the seven states in the greater southwest. In: Nabhan, G., S. Buckley, and H. Dial. 2015. Pollinator Plants of the Desert Southwest: Native Milkweeds (Asclepias spp.). USDA‐Natural Resources Conservation Service, Tucson Plant Materials Center, Tucson, AZ. AZPMC Technical Note No. 16‐1.
Research Checklists
Research checklists are pre-compiled by biologists.
This is a very controlled method for building a species list, which allows for
specific specimens to be linked to the species names within the checklist and thus serve as vouchers.
Specimen vouchers are proof that the species actually occurs in the given area. If there is any doubt, one
can inspect these specimens for verification or annotate the identification when necessary.
The 
symbol opens the species list as an interactive key.
symbol opens the species list as an interactive key.
Developments of SEINet, Symbiota, and associated specimen databases have been supported by
National Science Foundation Grants
(DBI 9983132,
BRC 0237418,
DBI 0743827,
DBI 0847966)