milkweed
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- noun
Synonyms for milkweed
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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- herb
- herbaceous plant
- Asclepias
- genus Asclepias
- Asclepias albicans
- white milkweed
- Asclepias curassavica
- blood flower
- swallowwort
- Asclepias exaltata
- poke milkweed
- Asclepias incarnata
- swamp milkweed
- Asclepia meadii
- Asclepias meadii
- Mead's milkweed
- Asclepias purpurascens
- purple silkweed
- Asclepias speciosa
- showy milkweed
- Asclepias subverticillata
- horsetail milkweed
- poison milkweed
- Asclepias tuberosa
- butterfly weed
- chigger flower
- chiggerflower
- Indian paintbrush
- orange milkweed
- pleurisy root
- tuber root
- Asclepias verticillata
- whorled milkweed