Butterfly weed, tuberous swallow-wort or orange apocynum, Asclepias tuberosa. Drawn at James Colville's nursery in the King's Road, Chelsea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Smith after a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from his own Botanical Register, J. Ridgeway, London, 1815.

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