| Name | Asclepias purpurascens Linnaeus |
| Authorship | Linnaeus |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Asclepias Linnaeus |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:94577-1 |
| Holdings | 134 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Asclepias purpurascens Linnaeus |
| Identification made in | [no date] (129), 1987 (1), 1990 (2), 2006 (1), 2011 (1) |