PaperMaking from Plants:
Milkweed Paper

I cooked fall gathered milkweed in washing soda and separated the bast from the stems. I also cooked milweed pods and leaves separately, also from fall gathered plants. After blender processing the milkweed past, its light grey color was uninspiring, so I blender processed the leaves and pods as well and mixed the two pulps together.

This yielded a soft green paper. The dark flecks are seeds. It fells nearly like cloth.

Asclepias L. milkweed
Symbol: ASCLE
Group: Dicot
Family: Asclepiadaceae

Subkingdom Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision Spermatophyta - Seed plants

Division Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons

Subclass Asteridae -
Order Gentianales -

Family Asclepiadaceae - Milkweed family
Genus Asclepias L. - milkweed

This information from plants.usda.gov

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