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Asclepias (milkweed) — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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Asclepias

Common names: milkweed

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Gentianales > Apocynaceae

Roles: host

ITIS TSN: 30240

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 71 | Mentions: 79

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Knowledge graph centered on Asclepias with 77 nodes and 212 connections. Top connected: Generalization in pollination systems, and why it , Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Evolutionary options for maximizing pollen dispers, Flies and flowers: taxonomic diversity of anthophi.

Publications (71)

Increasing aridity may threaten the maintenance of a plant defence polymorphism

2025Ecology LettersRole: text_match

Temperature and relative humidity effects on nectar quantity, nectar quality, and plant-pollinator interactions

2025Role: text_match

Effects of water availability on expression of vegetative traits in Ipomopsis across space and time

2024Role: text_match

Genetic mechanisms underlying maladaptation in specialized species interactions

2023Role: text_match

In your stomach or in your nectar? Disentangling the effects of two pollination-related yeasts on bumblebee behavior and foraging

2023Role: text_match

The causes and consequences of pollen defence

2023Role: text_match

Combined Effects of Aridity and Herbivory on Plant Performance

2022Role: text_match

Floral phenotypic response of <i> Ipomopsis aggregata </i> and related hybrids to changing soil moisture and nitrogen enrichment

Documents (6)

technical report

A Classification of the Riparian Vegetation of the Gunnison River Basin, Colorado

environmental assessment

Appendix 2 List of Designated Colorado Natural Areas, List of Registered Colorado Natural Areas, List of Identified Colorado Natural Areas

technical report

Department Of Energy Compliance With Floodplain – Wetlands Environmental Review Requirements

environmental assessment

Draft Environmental Impact Statement

environmental assessment

Draft: Environmental Assessment of the Proposed Remedial Action at the Gunnison Uranium Mill Tailings Site

technical report

Species Endangerment Patterns in the United States

Co-occurring Species

Ipomopsis aggregata

Polemoniaceae54 shared papers

Bombus

Apidae45 shared papers

Delphinium

Ranunculaceae40 shared papers

Hymenoptera

32 shared papers

Asclepias syriaca

Apocynaceae32 shared papers

Polemoniaceae

Polemoniaceae30 shared papers

Beetles

28 shared papers

Polemonium

Polemoniaceae27 shared papers

Apis mellifera

Apidae25 shared papers

solitary bees

24 shared papers

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Genetic and spatial variation in vegetative and floral traits across a hybrid zone

2022American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

Phenotypic plasticity and selection on leaf traits in response to snowmelt timing and summer precipitation

2022New PhytologistRole: text_match

The Evolution and Ecology of Interactions Between Ants and Honeydew-Producing Hemipteran Insects

2022The Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and SystematicsRole: text_match

Experimental Test of the Combined Effects of Water Availability and Flowering Time on Pollinator Visitation and Seed Set

2021Frontiers of Ecology & EvolutionRole: text_match

From the ground up: Building predictions for how climate change will affect belowground mutualisms, floral traits, and bee behavior

2021Climate Change EcologyRole: text_match

Plant–pollinator interaction niche broadens in response to severe drought perturbations

2021OecologiaRole: text_match

The effects of anthropogenic change on pollination in plant-pollinator communities

2021Role: text_match

Trade-off mitigation: a conceptual framework for understanding floral adaptation in multispecies interactions

2021Biological ReviewsRole: text_match

Unraveling the ecological and evolutionary impacts of a plant invader on the pollination of a native plant

2021Biological Invasions doi 10.1007/s10530-021-02457-zRole: text_match

Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology

2020American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

Elevational cline in herbivore abundance driven by a monotonic increase in trophic level sensitivity to aridity

2019Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match

Floral reward strategies, visitor behavior, and plant reproductive outcomes

2019Role: text_match

Invasive plants and water availablity mediate outcomes of plant-pollinator interactions

2019Role: text_match

Pollen and vegetative secondary chemistry of three pollen-rewarding lupines

2019American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

Pollinator mediated reproductive consequences of altered co-flowering under climate change depend on abiotic context

2019Role: text_match

Progressive sensitivity of trophic levels to warming underlies an elevational gradient in ant–aphid mutualism strength

2019OikosRole: text_match

Quantifying Nectar Resources in Bumble Bee Visited Plants

2019Role: text_match

Stoichiometry and infectious disease: Linking chemical elements and parasitic interactions

2019Role: text_match

The effects of climate change and biodiversity loss on mutualisms

2019Role: text_match

Characterizing nectar content in wet and dry subalpine meadows during an extreme summer drought

2018Role: text_match

Clines in traits compared over two decades in a plant hybrid zone

2018Annals of BotanyRole: text_match

40 years of progress in pollination biology, and what it means for citizen scientists

2017Aquilegia: Newsletter of the Colorado Native Plant SocietyRole: text_match

Plant-Pollinator Interactions and Environmental Change: Effects of Experimental Changes in Phenology and Water Availability on a Montane Wildflower

2017Role: text_match

Plant-pollinator interactions under climate change: the use of spatial and temporal transplants

2017Applications in Plant SciencesRole: text_match

Shifts in water availability mediate plantâ€“pollinator interactions

2017New PhytologistRole: text_match

Drought, pollen and nectar availability, and pollination success

2016EcologyRole: text_match

Plant Successional Changes Over 67 Years on the Gothic Earthflow.

2014Role: text_match

Secondary compounds in floral rewards of toxic rangeland plants: impacts on pollinators

2014Journal of Agricultural and Food ChemistryRole: text_match

Abiotic and multitrophic determinants of geographic distribution in an herbivorous insect

2013Role: text_match

Dose-dependent effects of nectar alkaloids in a montane plant-pollinator community

2013Journal of EcologyRole: text_match

Mechanisms underlying plant sexual dimorphism in multi-trophic arthropod communities

2013EcologyRole: text_match

Nectar dwelling yeasts and their effects on pollinator preference

2013Role: text_match

Influence of macronutrient imbalance on native ant foraging and interspecific interactions in the field

2012Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

A test of sexual dimorphism in <i>Valeriana edulis</i> resistance and induced responses to herbivory

2010Role: text_match

Ecology and evolution of plant-pollinator interactions

2009Annals of BotanyRole: text_match

Variation in host plant sex mediates ant-aphid interactions

2009Role: text_match

Reciprocal benefits in a plant-pollinator mutualism

2008Role: text_match

Effects of long-term experimental warming on aphid density in the field

2007Journal of the Kansas Entomological SocietyRole: text_match

Predicting the effects of nectar robbing on plant reproduction: implications of pollen limitation and plant mating system

2007American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

Floral larceny: Implications, resistance, and the potential for tolerance

2006Role: text_match

Self-sterility in <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i> (Polemoniaceae) is due to prezygotic ovule degeneration

2006American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

Nectar robbing in Ipomopsis aggregata: does high nectar production confer tolerance?

2005Role: text_match

Temporal and spatial variation in pollination of a montane herb: a seven-year study

2005EcologyRole: text_match

The Timing of Floral Color Change in Lupinus argenteus

2005Role: text_match

The structure of plant-pollinator interactions in montane meadow environments

2004Role: text_match

Impact of nectar robbing on estimates of pollen flow: conceptual predictions and emperical outcomes

2003EcologyRole: text_match

Experimental manipulation of plant density and its effect on pollination and reproduction of two confamilial montane herbs

2001OecologiaRole: text_match

Flies and flowers: taxonomic diversity of anthophiles and pollinators

2001Canadian EntomologistRole: text_match

The impact of floral larceny on individuals, populations, and communities

2001OecologiaRole: text_match

Consequences of nectar robbing for realized male function in a hummingbird-pollinated plant

2000EcologyRole: text_match

Floral dimorphism, pollination, and self-fertilization in gynodioecious <i>Geranium richardsonii</i> (Geraniaceae)

2000American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

Hydrologic and behavioral constraints on oviposition of stream insects: implications for adult dispersal

2000OecologiaRole: text_match

Nectar Robbing in <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>: Effects on Pollinator Behavior and Plant Fitness

1998OecologiaRole: text_match

Generalization in pollination systems, and why it matters

1996EcologyRole: text_match

Geitonogamy: the neglected side of selfing

1993Trends in Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match

Evolutionary options for maximizing pollen dispersal of animal-pollinated plants

1989American NaturalistRole: referenced example (pollinia r

Inflorescence size: test of the male function hypothesis

1989American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

Optimal outcrossing in Ipomopsis aggregata: seed set and offspring fitness

1989EvolutionRole: text_match

Sources of variation in plant reproductive success, and implications for concepts of sexual selection

1989American NaturalistRole: text_match

Nectar production patterns in Ipomopsis aggregata (Polemoniaceae)

1983American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

Pollinator choice and stabilizing selection for flower color in Delphinium nelsonii

1981EvolutionRole: text_match

Competition for bumblebee pollinators in Rocky Mountain plant communities

1980EcologyRole: study subject

Optimal foraging in bumblebees: calculation of net rate of energy intake and optimal patch choice

1980Theoretical Population BiologyRole: text_match