Swamp milkweed: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Swamp milkweed in English is the name of a plant defined with Asclepias incarnata in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Asclepias amoena Brongn., nom. illeg., non Asclepias amoena L. (among others).
2) Swamp milkweed is also identified with Asclepias perennis It has the synonym Asclepias parviflora Aiton (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Annales des Sciences Naturelles (Paris) (1831)
· Autikon Botanikon (1840)
· Prodromus stirpium in horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium (1796)
· Systema Vegetabilium, ed. 15 (1820)
· Flora of Tropical Africa (1902)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
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Partial matches: Milkweed.
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