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Asclepias is a
genus of herbaceous, perennial,
flowering plants known as
milkweeds,
named for
their latex, a
milky substance containing cardiac glycosides...
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milkweed in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Milkweed, Asclepias, is a
genus of herbaceous, perennial,
flowering plants named for
their milky...
- plexippus) is a
milkweed butterfly (subfamily Danainae) in the
family Nymphalidae.
Other common names,
depending on region,
include milkweed,
common tiger...
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Asclepias syriaca,
commonly called common milkweed,
butterfly flower, silkweed,
silky swallow-wort, and
Virginia silkweed, is a
species of
flowering plant...
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Asclepias tuberosa,
commonly known as
butterfly weed, is a
species of
milkweed native to
eastern and
southwestern North America. It is
commonly known as...
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Purple milkweed is the
common name of two
plant species within the
genus Asclepias:
Asclepias purpurascens,
native to the East
Coast of the
United States...
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Asclepias fascicularis is a
species of
milkweed known by the
common names narrowleaf milkweed and
Mexican whorled milkweed. It is a
perennial herb that grows...
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Woolly milkweed may
refer to
several species of plants:
Woolly milkweed,
Asclepias lanuginosa,
native to the
upper Midwest United States and
Canada Woolly...
- brush-footed butterflies. It
includes the Daniadae, or
milkweed butterflies, who lay
their eggs on
various milkweeds on
which their larvae (caterpillars) feed, as...
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Milkweed is a 2003
young adult historical fiction novel by
American author Jerry Spinelli. The book is
about a boy in Warsaw,
Poland in the
years of World...
