Definition of Asclepias verticillata

1. Noun. Milkweed of the eastern United States with narrow leaves in whorls and greenish-white flowers.

Exact synonyms: Whorled Milkweed
Generic synonyms: Milkweed, Silkweed

Lexicographical Neighbors of Asclepias Verticillata

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
Ascophyllum nodosum
Aseem
Aselli
Aselli's gland
Aselli's pancreas
Ases' Garth

Literary usage of Asclepias verticillata

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

1. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1907)
""Of ninety-two specimens bearing corpuscula of asclepias verticillata," says Professor Robertson, "eighty-eight have them on hairs alone, and four on the ..."

2. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1900)
"... or Green-flowered Milkweed (asclepias verticillata) Milkweed family Flowers—White or greenish, on short pedicels, in several small terminal clusters. ..."

3. Transactions of the Annual Meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science, Kansas Academy of Science Meeting (1901)
"ASCLEPIAS OBTUSIFOLIA, Michx. Jessamine, В 2686. ASCLEPIAS AMPLEXICAULIS, Michx. Jessamine, В 2535, 2557. asclepias verticillata, L. Alachua county, В 2040. ..."

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