asclepias albicans

1. 1.

   tall herb with leafless white waxy stems and whitish starlike flowers; southwestern United States

   Synonymswhite milkweed

   Broadermilkweed

Questions about asclepias albicans

What does asclepias albicans mean?

asclepias albicans means "tall herb with leafless white waxy stems and whitish starlike flowers; southwestern United States".

What is another word for asclepias albicans?

Close synonyms include white milkweed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is asclepias albicans a common word?

asclepias albicans is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.