title: Purple milkweed
text: # Purple milkweed
  
  Purple milkweed is the common name of two plant species within the genus Asclepias:
  
  * Asclepias purpurascens, native to the East Coast of the United States
  * Asclepias cordifolia, native to the West Coast of the United States, and usually called the heartleaf milkweed
  