Lexic.us

Definition of Butterfly weed

1. Noun. Erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers.

Literary usage of Butterfly weed

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

1. Outlines of Lessons in Botany: For the Use of Teachers, Or Mothers Studying by Jane Hancox Newell (1892)
"The Butterfly-Weed differs from the others in being without milky juice. Our common Milkweeds (A. ... The leaves of the Butterfly-Weed are opposite, simple, ..."

2. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1907)
"Lacking the quantity of sticky milky juice which protects that plant from crawling pilferers, the butterfly-weed suffers outrageous robberies ..."

3. American Medical Botany: Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants by Jacob Bigelow (1817)
"By far the most rich and gaudy of these in appearance is the Asclepias tuberosa, known by the vulgar names of butterfly weed and Pleurisy root, ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1920)
"Roots of butterfly weed were eaten raw for throat and lung troubla The fine ... The collecting of roots of wild gourd and butterfly weed was done only by ..."

5. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1900)
"Lacking the quantity of sticky milky juice which protects that plant from crawling pilferers, the butterfly-weed suffers outrageous robberies from black ..."

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