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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are many species of the plant Asclepias, some native and some non-native. Their common name is milkweed for the milky sap they produce. Milkweed is the larval host plant for the monarch ...

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Just this past month the International Union for Conservation of Nature placed the migratory monarch butterfly on its Red List of Endangered Species. This has been a long time coming. Monarchs are the ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A long-term study of leaf shape variation in natural populations of butterfly-weed, Asclepias tuberosa, begun in 1946, has been continued over ...