Apocynum androsaemifolium


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Related to Apocynum androsaemifolium: Apocynum cannabinum, Asclepias subverticillata, common dogbane
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Noun1.Apocynum androsaemifolium - North American perennial having pinkish flowers in loose cymesApocynum androsaemifolium - North American perennial having pinkish flowers in loose cymes; used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints
dogbane - any of several poisonous perennial plants of the genus Apocynum having acrid milky juice and bell-shaped white or pink flowers and a very bitter root
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X APOCYNACEAE (Milkweed Family) Apocynum androsaemifolium L.
Wild grape 35 Toxicodendron radicans Poison ivy 36 Apocynum androsaemifolium Dogbane 37 Solidago rigida Stiff goldenrod 38 Rhamnus cathartica Common buckthorn* 39 Cirsium arvense Canada thistle * 40 Malus spp.
Species Modelling Name Common Horsetail HORSETAIL (Equisetum arvense) Grass GRASS Willow (Salix sp.) WILLOW Red-Osier Dogwood DOGWOOD (Corpus stolonifera) Sitka Alder (Alnus crispa) ALDER Western Red Cedar CEDAR (Thuja plicata) Spruce (Picea sp.) SPRUCE Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus) THIMBLEBERRY Common Red Paintbrush PAINTBRUSH (Castilleja miniata) Black Twinberry TWINBERRY (Lonicera involucrata) Spreading Dogbane DOGBANE (Apocynum androsaemifolium) Lupine (Lurpinus sp.) LUPINE Aspen (Populus tremuloides) ASPEN Table 4.