marsh milkweed

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   North American herb having whorled leaves and terminal clusters of flowers spotted with purple

   SynonymsJoe-Pye weedpurple bonesettrumpet weedEupatorium purpureum

   Broaderherb

   Part ofEupatorium

Questions about marsh milkweed

What does marsh milkweed mean?

marsh milkweed means "North American herb having whorled leaves and terminal clusters of flowers spotted with purple".

What is another word for marsh milkweed?

Close synonyms include Joe-Pye weed, purple boneset, trumpet weed, Eupatorium purpureum. 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 marsh milkweed a common word?

marsh milkweed 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.