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Definition of Orange milkweed
1. Noun. Erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers.
Generic synonyms: Milkweed, Silkweed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orange Milkweed
Literary usage of Orange milkweed
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)
"Butterfly-weed; Pleurisy-root; Orange-root; orange milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa)
Milkweed family Flowers—Bright reddish orange, in many-flowered, ..."
2. Studies on the Germ Cell of Aphids by Nettie Maria Stevens (1906)
"In the black and the orange milkweed aphids we have two conspicuously different
aphids with chromosomes of the same number and not markedly different size ..."
3. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1900)
"Butterfly-weed; Pleurisy-root; Orange-root; orange milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa)
Milkweed family Flowers—Bright reddish orange, in many-flowered, ..."
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