Synonyms:

• (≡) Asclepias nivea var. curassavica (L.) Kuntze

Common names:

• bastard ipecacuana  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• bastard-ipecac  (Source: Pl Book) - English
• bloodflower  (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2) - English
• bloodflower milkweed  (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
• cottonbush  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• false ipecac  (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
• Madagascar cottonbush  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• milky cottonbush  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• red milkweed  (Source: Pl Res SEAs) - English
• red-cotton  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• redhead  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• redhead cottonbush  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• scarlet milkweed  (Source: F Florida) - English
• swallowwort  (Source: Pl Res SEAs) - English
• wallflower cottonbush  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• West Indian ipecacuana  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• wild ipecac  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• wild oleander  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• asclepias de Curaçao  (Source: Pl Res SEAs) - French
• herbe à sang  (Source: Mansf Ency) - French
• ipéca sauvage  (Source: Mansf Ency) - French
• Indianer-Seidenpflanze  (Source: Zander Ency) - German
• algodãozinho-do-campo  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• camará-bravo  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• capitão-de-sala  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• cega-olho  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• erva-de-paina  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• oficial-de-sala  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• paina-de-sapo  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• paininha  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• algodoncillo  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• corcalito  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• flor de sangre  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• yuquillo  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• röd sidenört  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
• ma li jin  (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese

Economic Importance:

• Harmful organism host: crop diseases ()
• Harmful organism host: crop pests ()
• Environmental: ornamental ()
• Medicines: folklore ()
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals ()
• Weed: potential seed contaminant (fide Atlas WWeed; Econ Pl Aust)

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Baja Sur, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas]
• SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan]

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, [Saba] Puerto Rico, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Virgin Islands (British), Virgin Islands (U.S.)
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
• BRAZIL: Brazil
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Chile (n.), Paraguay


Cultivated (also cult.)

Naturalized

Africa

• Africa

Asia-Temperate

• CHINA: China
• EASTERN ASIA: Japan

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Pakistan
• PAPUASIA: Papua New Guinea
• INDO-CHINA: Cambodia, Thailand
• MALESIA: Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Malaysia, Philippines

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia

Northern America

• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Florida, Louisiana]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]

Pacific

• NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]
• NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau
• SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: Cook Islands, French Polynesia
• SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna Islands

Southern America

• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Ecuador [Galapagos Islands]


Other (exact native range in Americas obscure)

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Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image