purple silkweed

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   perennial of eastern North America having pink-purple flowers

   SynonymsAsclepias purpurascens

   Broadermilkweed

Questions about purple silkweed

What does purple silkweed mean?

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

What is another word for purple silkweed?

Close synonyms include Asclepias purpurascens. 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 silkweed a common word?

purple silkweed 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.