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Silkweed   Listen
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Silkweed  n.  (Bot.) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed.






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"Silkweed" Quotes from Famous Books



... not the perfume of any flower that attracts the bees; they pay no attention to the sweet-scented lilac, or to heliotrope, but work upon sumach, silkweed, and the hateful snapdragon. In September they are hard pressed, and do well if they pick up enough sweet to pay the running expenses of their establishment. The purple asters and the goldenrod are about all that ...
— Locusts and Wild Honey • John Burroughs



Words linked to "Silkweed" :   tuber root, Asclepias exaltata, herb, Asclepias speciosa, poke milkweed, blood flower, Mead's milkweed, purple silkweed, milkweed, orange milkweed, chiggerflower, whorled milkweed, Asclepias albicans, genus Asclepias, pleurisy root, Asclepias purpurascens, swamp milkweed, Asclepias verticillata, Asclepias incarnata, showy milkweed, Asclepias



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