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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 ...
Forget the name; here are seven varieties that would make great garden plants.
Common milkweed Asclepias syriaca is a favorite of monarchs, hardy in zones three to eight, but very aggressive, spreading by deep rhizomes and seeds.
Asclepias curassavica, or Tropical Milkweed, is a native of South America and therefore does not appear in our Native Plant Database. However, here is a Floridata website on it for reference ...
By supplying a near year-round food source, we have disturbed the monarch butterfly natural migration routine. Native butterfly weed, or Asclepias tuberosa, can help lure butterflies to area gardens.
Milkweed, the common name of the genus Asclepias, is an incredibly popular and diverse native plant that grows across the United States, from the Northeast to the Great Lakes to the Southwest. If ...
More than 75 varieties of native asclepias grow along the monarchs’ migratory paths in North America, and more than 30 of them are indigenous in Texas.
During several visits to South Boulder Creek Trail recently, monarch butterflies and western tiger swallowtails, Papilio rutulus, were nectaring on swamp milkweed. This is common knowledge — online ...
It's Asclepias curavassica, or tropical milkweed. Monarchs will happily lay their eggs on tropical milkweed and their hungry caterpillars will strip it clean.
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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 ...