Milkweed (disambiguation)
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Milkweed, Asclepias, is a genus of herbaceous, perennial, flowering plants named for their milky latex sap.
Milkweed may also refer to:
Plants
[edit]- Calotropis, a genus from eastern and southern Asia, and northern Africa
- Euphorbia heterophylla, native to the Americas
- Euphorbia peplus, native to most of Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia
Other uses
[edit]- Milkweed (novel), a children's novel by Jerry Spinelli
- Milkweed Editions, an independent publishing company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), also known as the milkweed