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Milkweeds
Every rated Asclepias record is fire-resistant — 3 of 6 records, including the genus rated as a group; none is condemned. These counts describe the cited records — 6 records carrying 22 evidence rows from 11 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.
Rated as a group: Milkweed, Butterfly weed Asclepias sp. Awaiting evidence Limited evidence 1 source rate the genus as a
whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never
override a species record.
› Fire-resistant
3 species
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Orange butterfly weed Fire-resistant Asclepias tuberosa -
Swamp milkweed Fire-resistant Asclepias incarnata -
Milkweed (Common) Fire-resistant Asclepias syriaca
Awaiting evidence
2 species
- Asclepias curassavica Awaiting evidence Asclepias curassavica
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White milkweed Awaiting evidence Asclepias variegata
About milkweeds
Corpus context. Asclepias is the directory's #113 largest of 550 genus groups: 6 records carrying 22 evidence rows from 11 cited sources, recorded as perennial, shrub , hardy across USDA zones 3–9. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.
More about Asclepias: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.