Talk:Butterfly weed
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For some reason there was a recent change suggesting that this plant does in fact have milky stems. Perhaps this is because of a hybridization or some other cause? I think the confusion is that it is a member of the milkweed family, so the assumption is made that it has milk.
I also have some botony books that list this as "Not Milky", but since they are in print, I can't show a link. Please note the "Hello Yellow" cultivar is supposed to be milky, but not the native plant. See here and here. There are only a few references to it being milky and those could be considered an error by assuming it was milky due to the name or hybridization. — Ram-Man (comment) (talk) 01:09, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
