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Plant Details

Accepted name: 
Asclepias syriaca L. [Apocynaceae]
Source: 
World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant: 
Plants of the World Online
Non-scientific name: Class of name: Medicinal source:
algodoncillo Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
asclepias Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
asclepias syriaca Other U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
broadleaf milkweed Other U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
common milkweed Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
gewöhnliche seidenpflanze Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
herbe à coton Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
herbe à la ouate Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
milkweed Other Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
petits cochons Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
seidenpflanze Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
sidenört Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
silkweed Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
silky swallowwort Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
virginia-silk Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
virginian swallow-wort Other U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
wild cotton Other U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)