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Noun Concept
Categories: Symbols of Illinois, Asclepias, Taxonbars with 25–29 taxon IDs, Articles with 'species' microformats, Apocynaceae genera
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Asclepias  genus Asclepias  Acerates  Aidomene  Anantherix
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Genus of chiefly North American perennial herbs: silkweed; milkweed WordNet 3.0
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Genus of chiefly North American perennial herbs: silkweed; milkweed WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Asclepias is a genus of herbaceous, perennial, flowering plants known as milkweeds, named for their latex, a milky substance containing cardiac glycosides termed cardenolides, exuded where cells are damaged. Wikipedia
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dicot genus
taxonomic group
PART OF
Asclepiadaceae
HAS KIND
Asclepias viridiflora
Gomphocarpus fruticosus
PARENT TAXON
Asclepiadinae
TAXON RANK
genus
TAXONOMIC TYPE
Asclepias syriaca
MEMBER MERONYM
milkweed
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Asclepias, genus Asclepias
Wikipedia
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Asclepias
Wikidata
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Asclepias
Wikipedia Redirections
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Acerates, Aidomene, Anantherix, Asclepiodella, Asclepiodora, Biventraria, Miikweeds, milk weed, milkweed floss, milkweeds, Odontostelma, Podostemma, Trachycalymma
Wikidata Alias
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Milkweed

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