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Orange milkweed   /ˈɔrəndʒ mˈɪlkwˌid/   Listen
Orange milkweed

noun
1.
Erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers.  Synonyms: Asclepias tuberosa, butterfly weed, chigger flower, chiggerflower, Indian paintbrush, pleurisy root, tuber root.






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"Orange milkweed" Quotes from Famous Books



... huts of a "settlement" on the high bank. The sun has drunk up all the mists, and shines bright upon the soft gray satin of the girdled pine trees in the clearing; flowers are crowding everywhere—orange milkweed, purple phlox, creamy pawpaw, azure bluebells, spotted foxgloves, rose-tinted daisies, brown-eyed coreopsias and unknown flowers of palest blue. Butterflies flit noiselessly among them, and mocking-birds sing loud ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, September 1880 • Various



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