asclepias

noun

any plant of the perennial mostly tuberous genus Asclepias; some are grown as garden or greenhouse plants for their showy orange-scarlet or purple flowers: family AsclepiadaceaeSometimes called: milkweed

Word Origin for asclepias

Greek asklēpias swallowwort

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Historical Examples of asclepias

Infusum asclepiadis tuberos, L. From the root of butterfly weed or pleurisy root (Asclepias tuberosa).
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I
Arnold Cooley
This part had been covered with beautiful flowers, such as sunflowers, red and orange-coloured poppies, and asclepias.
The Desert Home
Mayne Reid
Asclepias, or Swallow-wort, a genus of plants, the type and the largest genus of the nat.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2
Various
The genus Gomphocarpus is distinguished from Asclepias by the absence of horns or crests in the hoods.
Field Book of Western Wild Flowers
Margaret Armstrong
According to Patrouillard senega is occasionally adulterated with the roots of Asclepias vincetoxicum.
Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II
Arnold Cooley