Restoration of the federally threatened Mead's milkweed (Asclepias meadii)

Ecological Restoration

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 235-241

  Bowles, Marlin ^a   McBride, Jenny ^a   Bell, Timothy ^b  

^a MORTON ARBORETUM   (United States)

^b CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCLEPIAS; ASCLEPIAS MEADII;

EID: 0040970515     PISSN: 15434060     EISSN: 15434079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/er.19.4.235     Document Type: Article

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