butterfly weed

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   erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers

   Synonymsorange milkweedchigger flowerchiggerflowerpleurisy roottuber rootIndian paintbrushAsclepias tuberosa

   Broadermilkweed

Questions about butterfly weed

What does butterfly weed mean?

butterfly weed means "erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers".

What is another word for butterfly weed?

Close synonyms include orange milkweed, chigger flower, chiggerflower, pleurisy root, tuber root. 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 butterfly weed a common word?

butterfly weed 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.