Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun asclepias_tuberosa

1 sense of asclepias tuberosa

Sense 1
butterfly weed, orange milkweed, chigger flower, chiggerflower, pleurisy root, tuber root, Indian paintbrush, Asclepias tuberosa -- (erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers)
       => milkweed, silkweed -- (any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts)