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 ...

Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed monarch butterflies, whose numbers in the ...

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 ...

Common milkweed occurs in the Piedmont of north-central Georgia. This population is disjunct over 150 km from the nearest known sites in North Carolina and Tennessee. Certain weedy characteristics, ...

Populations of the polycarpic perennial Asclepias tuberosa L. growing in a 50-year-old abandoned limestone quarry near Syracuse, New York, were studied from 1976-1981. Plants were mapped on two sites ...