asclepias speciosa

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   milkweed of southern North America having large starry purple and pink flowers

   Synonymsshowy milkweed

   Broadermilkweed

Questions about asclepias speciosa

What does asclepias speciosa mean?

asclepias speciosa means "milkweed of southern North America having large starry purple and pink flowers".

What is another word for asclepias speciosa?

Close synonyms include showy 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 speciosa a common word?

asclepias speciosa 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.