Growing milkweed from seed is an easy way to make your garden a monarch landing zone.

Commonly known as milkweed, Asclepias is a genus of herbaceous, perennial plants in the Apocynaceae (dogbane) plant family. Named for Asclepius, the Greek god of healing, plants exude a sticky, milky ...

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, ...

Butterfly Weed or Asclepias tuberosa is one of the foundational plants of a pollinator garden in North America. These rapidly growing plants are the host plants for the sadly declining Monarch ...

As I crisscross the county this summer to share environmental experiences with students, I can’t help but notice all of the stunning milkweed popping up on properties along the way.I watch in awe as ...

A guide called "Native Milkweeds" shows the commercially available milkweed varieties in the central United States. The guide is from the Xerces Society of Invertebrate Conservation, part of the ...