Asclepias incarnata Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1:215. 1753.

"Habitat in Canada, Virginia." RCN: 1779.

Lectotype (Woodson in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 41: 50. 1954): Herb. Linn. No. 310.25 (LINN) .

Current name: Asclepias incarnata L. ( Asclepiadaceae).

Note: Rendle (in Proc. Linn. Soc. London 148: 64. 1935) indicated material in LINN as the type, but did not distinguish between sheets 310.23-310.26.