This is three feet or more tall, fine-looking, though too pale, with a stout, smooth, gray-green stem and gray-green leaves, mottled with white and very stiff, the under side white-woolly, and flower-clusters two and a half inches across, composed of numerous greenish-white flowers, each half an inch long, their stalks covered with white wool.

Pale Milkweed-Asclepias erosa. Purple Milkweed-Gomphocarpus cordifolius. DOGBANE FAMILY. Apocynaceae.