This native plant will do more than just bring the butterflies to your yard. Milkweed plants have been the bane of many ...

One of the main threats to monarchs is the eradication of milkweed plants along their migratory route. Milkweed is the primary food source for the insect—and the only plant where the females lay their ...

By planting at least five milkweed plants, you can create a welcoming habitat for monarchs while enjoying the vibrant colors and long-lasting blooms these plants offer. Let’s make 2025 the year we ...

You can often smell its lovely fragrance before you see it. Common milkweed is a native perennial plant in the milkweed family. It commonly grows in sunny areas and ditches and is a primary part of ...

Gardeners can counteract both of these problems. The orange milkweed is the only host plant for monarch caterpillars in the Plains states. Seeds can be ordered online and refrigerated for about 30 ...

Learn how to grow the essential host plant for monarchs. Thirteen native species of milkweed are found across Canada. This fall, try incorporating milkweed into your garden to help native pollinators.

Through September 30th, orders had been fulfilled exhausting a stock of 300,000 milkweed seed packets. Additional seed material has been ordered and is expected to arrive in October. All remaining ...

For several of these native plants, the word "weed" became part of their common names: milkweed, ironweed, ragweed, smartweed, pokeweed, horseweed, bindweed, sneezeweed, and many others. But at NYC ...

RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected the prostrate milkweed as endangered. Only 24 populations of the plant survive, in south Texas and northern Mexico, where ...