Question: Good morning, I am so very hopeful that what I have in my 3 acre field here in Oxford, PA …
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Good morning, I am so very hopeful that what I have in my 3 acre field here in Oxford, PA is purple milkweed. I don't have a flower nor a seed pod to help quite yet but hoping you can help me. Two reliable apps did confirm my milkweed to be purple but these were only leaf images. IF these are purple, I'd like to more carefully manage the field mowing and preservation. Additional information: these are September images, the field had been cut every year every 8 weeks for alfalfa. Gary
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Dear liskagb, good morning. I'm sorry I cannot help you. I do not believe the identification app that you have used to be useful here--there is no manner of providing a confident identification without flowers or fruits. The vegetation of Asclepias purpurascens and Asclepias syriaca (the common species in the northeast) are so similar that reproductive material is needed. Please keep me posted if these plants flower/fruit. Best wishes.
