Plant Details

Accepted name:: Asclepias syriaca L. [Apocynaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

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 Pharmacop. (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)
common silk weed	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
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)
ipek fidani	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
milkweed	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
petits cochons	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
pleurisy root	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
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 Pharmacop. (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 Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
wild cotton	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 15 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Asclepias apocinum Gaterau Desc. Pl. Montauban: 58 (1789).
Asclepias consanguinea Kunze Linnaea 20: 26 (1847).
Asclepias cornuti Decne. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 8: 564 (1844).
Asclepias fragrans Raf. Med. Repos. 5: 354 (1808), nom. illeg.
Asclepias globosa Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 2: 4 (1812).
Asclepias grandifolia Bertol. Mem. Reale Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna 3: 189 (1851).
Asclepias illinoensis Michx. ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 146 (1840).
Asclepias intermedia Vail Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 31: 459 (1904).
Asclepias obtusifolia Kunze Linnaea 20: 27 (1847), pro syn.
Asclepias pubescens Moench Methodus: 716 (1794), nom. illeg.
Asclepias pubigera Dumort. Fl. Belg.: 52 (1827).
Asclepias serica Raf. Autik. Bot.: 179 (1840), nom. illeg.
Asclepias syriaca f. inermis J.R.Churchill Rhodora 20: 207 (1919).
Asclepias syriaca f. leucantha Dore Rhodora 46: 387 (1944).
Asclepias syriaca f. polyphylla B.Boivin Naturaliste Canad. 94: 521 (1967).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Asclepias syriaca	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
Asclepias syriaca L.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

Asclepias syriaca

Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)

Asclepias syriaca L.

GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019)
WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024)
World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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