This plant, butterfly milkweed or Asclepias tuberosa, currently is in its full summer beauty. Butterfly milkweed is a native plant that is tough as nails in the garden. Since the plant is a native ...

If you are looking to attract the endangered monarch butterfly, only 30 milkweed species are used by them regularly. Other species of this native perennial, like swamp milkweed (Asclepias ...