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Type Words
Synonyms sonchus oleraceus
Type of sow thistle, milk thistle
Type Words
Synonyms silkweed
Type of herbaceous plant, herb
Has types asclepias incarnata, asclepias meadii, asclepias purpurascens, asclepias speciosa, asclepias subverticillata, asclepias tuberosa, asclepias verticillata, blood flower, butterfly weed, chigger flower, chiggerflower, horsetail milkweed, indian paintbrush, mead's milkweed, whorled milkweed, asclepias albicans, asclepias curassavica, asclepias exaltata, white milkweed, asclepia meadii, orange milkweed, pleurisy root, poison milkweed, poke milkweed, purple silkweed, showy milkweed, swallowwort, swamp milkweed, tuber root

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How far from the milkweed do the caterpillars venture to from their chrysalises?
From the chron.com
The weevils were identified as milkweed stem weevils, Rhyssomatus lineaticollis.
From the sciencedaily.com
Good choices in Florida are the sabal palm, live oak, wild coffee and milkweed.
From the stltoday.com
Every other day, the students would gather milkweed pods for their charges to eat.
From the time.com
Monarch butterfly caterpillars are particularly partial to milkweed, she says.
From the denverpost.com
These creatures also sip nectar from milkweed and lay their eggs on the plant.
From the ocregister.com
The former are now known as Danainae, the milkweed butterflies, main genus Danaus.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Several online seed sources offer antelope horns, green milkweed and others.
From the dallasnews.com
One of the most important of these is asclepias, commonly known as milkweed.
From the sfgate.com
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  • Any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts
  • Annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads
  • Asclepias L. (1753), the milkweeds, is a genus of herbaceous perennial, dicotyledonous plants that contains over 140 known species. It previously belonged to the family Asclepiadaceae, but this is now classified as the subfamily Asclepiadoideae of the dogbane family Apocynaceae.
  • Milkweed is a 2003 historical fiction novel by American author Jerry Spinelli.it is also a drug you smoke. The book is about an orphaned boy without a name living in Warsaw, Poland in the years of World War II during the Holocaust. ...
  • A family of perennial herbs of which there are more than 100 species, native to the American and African continents, containing varying concentrations of toxic chemicals (glycosides). ...
  • A weed which has white juice that looks like milk