Euphorbia peplus (petty spurge, radium weed, cancer weed, or milkweed) is a species of Euphorbia, native to most of Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia, where it typically grows in cultivated arable land, gardens, and other disturbed land.

Euphorbia peplus (petty spurge, radium weed, cancer weed, or milkweed) is a species of Euphorbia, native to most of Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia, where it typically grows in cultivated arable land, gardens, and other disturbed land.

Euphorbia peplus (petty spurge, radium weed, cancer weed, or milkweed) is a species of Euphorbia, native to most of Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia, where it typically grows in cultivated arable land, gardens, and other disturbed land.

There isn't enough information available to know how swamp milkweed might work.

If they keep coming, it may be from someone else's milkweed patch.

This particular milkweed is also easy to grow, and it has one advantage over the others.

In a moment she was back with three pods from the milkweeds outside.

She held the baby out to him, together with a fresh milkweed pod.

Changes in agricultural land use diminish the area of milkweed.

In some states and provinces, milkweed is thought to be a weed.

That's a shame, because milkweed has much to recommend it.

Even if you cherish your milkweeds, the neighbors may not.

Instead of wilting like a milkweed she's stood up to it all.

It was exactly like the silk in a milkweed pod.

More evidence is needed to rate the effectiveness of swamp milkweed for these uses.

I knew she wouldn't let me have those, but might compromise on flavored milkweed.

Suddenly the plant was a milkweed, with several full ripe pods.

If a milkweed floated through, it stuck on the blades.

Low potassium levels can increase the chance of side effects from swamp milkweed.

Its flowers are also more pink than those of the common milkweed, but just as prolific.

While some other milkweeds also offer that protection, none have the orange symbolism.

While the fun is free, families will be encouraged to spend $1 on a package of milkweed seeds.

Despite serious safety concerns, people take swamp milkweed for digestion problems.

It feeds mainly on grains, particularly those of the milkweed.

It is estimated that there are currently more than one million Milkweed books in circulation.

In these places, the milkweed is killed to keep livestock from eating it and becoming sick.

She felt their touch, soft as milkweed, upon her hands, her face.

Adult male butterflies emerge in early June along with the first milkweed plants.

Euphorbia peplus (I)