What color is a milkweed?

Answer 1

There's no one color standard for milkweed [Asclepiasspp]. Specifically, the stems tend to be green. But then exceptions include the white stemmed wax [Asclepias albicans] and the woolly stemmed California [Asclepias californica] milkweeds.

The flowers tend to be vivid. For example, there's the orange blooming of the butterfly weed [Asclepias tuberosa]. There's the pink blossoming of rose or swamp milkweed [Asclepias incarnata]. There's the purple flowering of the heart leaf milkweed [Asclepias cordifolia].

But there are exceptions. There's the light greenish yellowish flowering of antelope horn milkweed [Asclepias asperula]. There's also the creamy white blooming of the rush [Asclepias subulata] and whorled or horsetail [Asclepias verticillata] milkweeds.