An even stronger rope can be fashioned from a dried plant called dogbane, once the stick-like stalks have been crushed and the flaky covering removed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Instincts: Where modern man can learn to live like his ancestors] Reference

The dogbane, which is perfectly adapted to the butterfly, and dependent upon it for help in producing fertile seed, ruthlessly destroys all poachers that are not big or strong enough to jerk away from its vise-like grasp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference

Others, such as dogbane, black currant and large sage, continue to experience smaller yields each year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News] Reference

When Jan pulls out an entire roll of dogbane cord he made himself, the class "oohs" its approval.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Instincts: Where modern man can learn to live like his ancestors] Reference

Apocynum androsaemifolium (spreading dogbane), Kineo, Bradford.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maine Woods] Reference

HollyAnna Pinkham harvests dogbane from a field near Toppenish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News] Reference

February pessimism, Tuesday went take dogbane sedative Burmannia.    From Wordnik.com.  [craigslist | computer services in chicago] Reference

Now, he and his wife, Martha, are teaching the art of making twine from dogbane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News] Reference

Christopher Paul Jr. shows cord that he's braided using the stalk of a dogbane plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News] Reference

Christopher Paul Jr. breaks limbs off a stalk of just-harvested dogbane on Jan. 5, 2009.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News] Reference

Recently, the group began gathering dogbane -- a weedlike plant used to make twine, rope and medicine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News] Reference

There are dozens of others, such as thistle's starburst, goldenrod's tufts, dogbane, wild artichoke and goatsbeard.    From Wordnik.com.  [RutlandHerald.com] Reference

Pointing to a different plant nearby, she explains how dogbane is mixed with other plant properties to make medicine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News] Reference

Oleander Leaf - Oleander, Nerium oleander, is an ornamental evergreen that belongs to the dogbane family, Apocynaceae.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Standing in nearly a half-foot of snow in a field just west of Toppenish, HollyAnna Pinkham snaps small branches from a long dogbane stem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News] Reference

As I hurried across I noted with great satisfaction that the pink-white blossoms of the spreading dogbane were covered with mosquito carcasses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roof and Meadow] Reference

Christopher Paul Jr. and HollyAnna Pinkham laugh and joke as they carry just-harvested dogbane back from a field near Toppenish, Wash., on Jan. 5, 2009.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News] Reference

At first glance one might mistake the dogbane leaf beetle for a creature of the tropical jungle, an exotic jewel sought after by the most discerning of collectors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myrmecos Blog] Reference

Ahead of me the even green broke suddenly over a shoal of sand into tall, tufted grasses, into rose, mallow, and stunted persimmon bushes, foaming, on nearer view, with spreading dogbane blossoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roof and Meadow] Reference

She plucked a spray of the spreading dogbane, but only that she might descant upon it to Sylvia; it was a crime, Mrs. Bassett said, to gather wild flowers, which were never the same when transplanted to the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hoosier Chronicle] Reference

… like the blue of the Amsonia tabernaemontana, blue dogbane, a shade of blue that reflects the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [May Dreams Gardens] Reference

Climb like a dogbane leaf beetle.    From Wordnik.com.  [chron.com Chronicle] Reference

If we could bring the dogbane to brew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roof and Meadow] Reference

Spreading dogbane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference

Fly-trap dogbane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference

When starch is obtained from any other plant than one of the grains, as from potatoes, corn, flag, bryony, horse-chestnut, wild orchis, dogbane, burdock, iris, henbane, patience, ranunculus, etc., it is known by the name of fecula.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference