Butterfly weed or tuberous-rooted swallow-wort, Asclepias tuberosa. Native of North America. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and engraved by Frederick William Smith from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 2, Orr, London, 1836.

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