asclepias purpurascens

1. 1.

   perennial of eastern North America having pink-purple flowers

   Synonymspurple silkweed

   Broadermilkweed

Questions about asclepias purpurascens

What does asclepias purpurascens mean?

asclepias purpurascens means "perennial of eastern North America having pink-purple flowers".

What is another word for asclepias purpurascens?

Close synonyms include purple silkweed. 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 purpurascens a common word?

asclepias purpurascens 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.