The Perennial Plant Association has named butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa), as its 2017 Perennial Plant of the Year. With much focus on pollinator habitat these days, butterfly milkweed is a ...

Some milkweed species are attractive additions to home landscapes, and monarch butterflies like them too. Here are some tips from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach horticulturists on ...

Butterfly weed (also called butterfly milkweed) is a pretty, low-maintenance perennial. Here are tips on where and how to plant it from horticulturists at Iowa State University in Ames. Q: What would ...

Question: I planted both tropical milkweed and asclepias tuberosa. Both are chlorotic and the native milkweed has brown upturned leaves. Could it possibly be too much water? Or what? Chlorosis is a ...

Few things are more graceful than a butterfly as it flutters from blossom to blossom. Butterflies are an elegant element of a garden and not just because of their beauty - they are valuable ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." This perennial herb (yep, this pretty flowering plant is technically an herb) should be on every gardener ...

Indiana has an Official Firearm, and yes, an Official State Pie. It also has a State Flower, of course—the peony. And now it may get a new State Wildflower, that vibrant orange pollinator-and-monarch ...

A Monarch butterfly feeds on a milkweed plant. (NOLA.com|The Times-Picyaune archive) A new butterfly garden at Camp Salmen Nature Park in Slidell is experimenting with varieties of milkweed to see ...

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Plants of Asclepias perennis Watt. and A. tuberosa L. ssp. rolfsii are examined to determine structural characteristics of these species from different habitats. Some structural features in both ...

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