Asclepias Cornuti.—Milkweed.
Classic texts: King's 1898.
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Asclepias syriaca L.
Engl.: common milkweed, purple silkweed, common silkweed, cottonweed, milkweed, silkweed, silky swallowwort, Syrian milkweed, Syrian silkweed, virginia-silk, wild cotton.
Deu.: Gemeine Seidenpflanze, Gewöhnliche Seidenpflanze, Seidenpflanze.
Fran.: herbe à la ouate.
Sven.: sidenört.
Suom.: mesisilkkiyrtti.
Bot. syn.: Asclepias cornuti Decne., Asclepias intermedia Vail, Asclepias kansana Vail.
Classic texts: King's 1898.
Classic texts: The American Eclectic Dispensatory, by John King, 1854.
Classic texts: Rafinesque 1828-1830.
Classic texts: John Hill 1812.
Classic texts: Scudder's Materia Medica, 1898: Diaphoretics.
Classic texts: USDisp 1918.
Classic texts: Sturtevant 1919.
Classic texts: Scudder 1870.
Classic texts: Sayre 1917.
Classic texts: Journals: TNEMA 1882-1883: Actinomeris - Asimina.
Classic texts: Journals: TNEMA 1882-1883.
Classic texts: Journals: AJP 1881.
Classic texts: Harding 1936.
Classic texts: Felter 1922.
Classic texts: Cook 1869.
Classic texts: Boericke 1901.
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