purple boneset

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

   SynonymsJoe-Pye weedtrumpet weedmarsh milkweedEupatorium purpureum

   Broaderherb

   Part ofEupatorium

Questions about purple boneset

What does purple boneset mean?

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

What is another word for purple boneset?

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

purple boneset 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.