Mead's milkweed:
Scientific Name: Asclepias meadii
The Mead's Milkweed grow in upland tallgrass prairie or glade/barren habitat. All the Mead's milkweed sites in Wisconsin are reintroduction attempts and occur on protected conservation lands. Mead’s milkweed is a perennial plant of the tallgrass prairies. It was listed as threatened in 1988. This milkweed formerly occurred throughout the eastern tallgrass prairie region of the central United States, from Kansas through Missouri and Illinois and north to southern Iowa and northwest Indiana. It currently is known from 171 sites in 34 counties in eastern Kansas, Missouri, south-central Iowa, and southern Illinois. Although extirpated from Indiana and Wisconsin it has been reintroduced in both
Scientific Name: Asclepias meadii
The Mead's Milkweed grow in upland tallgrass prairie or glade/barren habitat. All the Mead's milkweed sites in Wisconsin are reintroduction attempts and occur on protected conservation lands. Mead’s milkweed is a perennial plant of the tallgrass prairies. It was listed as threatened in 1988. This milkweed formerly occurred throughout the eastern tallgrass prairie region of the central United States, from Kansas through Missouri and Illinois and north to southern Iowa and northwest Indiana. It currently is known from 171 sites in 34 counties in eastern Kansas, Missouri, south-central Iowa, and southern Illinois. Although extirpated from Indiana and Wisconsin it has been reintroduced in both