Milkweed (disambiguation)

Milkweed, Asclepias, is a genus of herbaceous, perennial, flowering plants named for their milky latex sap.

Milkweed may also refer to:

Plants

 * 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

 * 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