Grow milkweed (Asclepias) to support monarch butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees while adding color, fragrance, and beauty to your landscape. You’ll find native milkweeds throughout North and South ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. I plant milkweed for monarch butterflies. A friend recently told me ...

When you’re out flower shopping this season, don’t forget to add a member or two – more is better -- of the asclepias family, better known as milkweed, to your shopping list. Unlike the many beautiful ...

The red and yellow blooms of tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, are ubiquitous in North Florida butterfly gardens. This non-native milkweed has exploded in popularity as demand for milkweed ...

Milkweed is the perfect plant for butterfly enthusiasts who want to attract monarch butterflies. When a female monarch discovers the milkweed, she lays her eggs on it. Once the eggs hatch, the small ...

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These underappreciated plants attract a “hungry throng” of beneficial insects. They’re not bad to look at, either. By Margaret Roach To see a field of common milkweed in midsummer — a sea of a ...

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Vol. 85, No. 1 (1998), pp. 97-109 (13 pages) Most populations of the federal threatened Mead's milkweed, Asclepias meadii Torr. (Asclepiadaceae), occur ...

Asclepias syriaca, known as common milkweed, is the plant usually associated with the name “milkweed.” But its presence in the wild has been steadily declining because of agricultural practices, ...