Definition of Asclepias incarnata

1. Noun. Densely branching perennial of the eastern United States with white to crimson or purple flowers.

Exact synonyms: Swamp Milkweed
Generic synonyms: Milkweed, Silkweed

Lexicographical Neighbors of Asclepias Incarnata

Aschheim-Zondek test
Aschner's phenomenon
Aschner's reflex
Aschner-Dagnini reflex
Aschoff bodies
Aschoff body
Aschoff cell
Aschoff nodules
Ascidiaceae
Asclepia meadii
Asclepiad
Asclepiadaceae
Asclepias albicans
Asclepias exaltata
Asclepias incarnata
Asclepias meadii
Asclepias purpurascens
Asclepias speciosa
Asclepias subverticillata
Asclepias tuberosa
Asclepias verticillata
Asclepius
Ascoli
Ascoli's test
Ascoli Piceno
Ascoli reaction
Ascomycota
Ascophyllum

Literary usage of Asclepias incarnata

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1884)
"asclepias incarnata.—Dr. J. Hosack Fraser, after three months' clinical trial of the ... asclepias incarnata, or white Indian hemp, thus summarises its ..."

2. Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies by Edwin Moses Hale (1897)
"asclepias incarnata. BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION.—This plant is known by various names, as Swamp Silkweed, Flesh-colored ..."

3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1898)
"Ascends to 2000 ft. in the Catskills. June-Aug. 6. asclepias incarnata L. T Swamp Milkweed. (Fig. 2905.) asclepias incarnata L. Sp. PI. ..."

4. The Characteristics of the New Remedies by Edwin Moses Hale, F. S. Whitman (1873)
"Miscarriage in the early months. (?) Relieves excessive pain in labor. (Resembles the Asarum Europium in its general action.) asclepias incarnata. ..."

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