English > milkweed: 2 senses > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts. |
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| Synonym | silkweed |
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| Member of | Asclepias, genus Asclepias | genus of chiefly North American perennial herbs |
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| Narrower | Mead's milkweed, Asclepias meadii, Asclepia meadii | milkweed of central North America |
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| blood flower, swallowwort, Asclepias curassavica | Tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings |
| butterfly weed, orange milkweed, chigger flower, chiggerflower, pleurisy root, tuber root, Indian paintbrush, Asclepias tuberosa | Erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers |
| poison milkweed, horsetail milkweed, Asclepias subverticillata | milkweed of southwestern United States and Mexico |
| poke milkweed, Asclepias exaltata | milkweed of the eastern United States with leaves resembling those of pokeweed |
| purple silkweed, Asclepias purpurascens | perennial of eastern North America having pink-purple flowers |
| showy milkweed, Asclepias speciosa | milkweed of southern North America having large starry purple and pink flowers |
| swamp milkweed, Asclepias incarnata | densely branching perennial of the eastern United States with white to crimson or purple flowers |
| white milkweed, Asclepias albicans | tall herb with leafless white waxy stems and whitish starlike flowers |
| whorled milkweed, Asclepias verticillata | milkweed of the eastern United States with narrow leaves in whorls and greenish-white flowers |
| Broader | herb, herbaceous plant | A plant lacking a permanent woody stem |
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| Spanish | asclepiadácea |
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| Catalan | asclepiadàcia |
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