Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca): ... These specialty nurseries and native plant groups sell milkweed plants, typically the swamp milkweed, common milkweed and butterfly milkweed.

This fast-growing plant boasts big leaves that can sustain lots of caterpillars, ... Common milkweed does love full sun. It does best when it receives 6 to 8 hours of direct sun each day.

Most milkweed plants grow best in full sun, while common milkweed is happiest in well-draining soil, and swamp milkweed may become stressed and prone to aphids if it’s not grown in moist earth ...

Oliver Hernandez poses with a common milkweed plant in his front yard in 2020. A tiny, young monarch caterpillar and even tinier monarch eggs are visible on the underside of a leaf.

Oliver Hernandez poses with a common milkweed plant in his front yard in 2020. A tiny, young monarch caterpillar and even tinier monarch eggs are visible on the underside of a leaf.

In pine barrens habitats, keep an eye out for clasping-leaved milkweed. It looks at first like common, but the leaves clasp the stem at their base, and the darker red flowers have longer, drooping ...

Since common milkweed is native to much of the US, your plants will not require much attention or care once established. Plant the little brown seeds in clusters in the fall, 1-2 inches deep.

De La Mater also set up a common-garden experiment. He brought plants from his eastern U.S. milkweed tour to the university greenhouse, growing them in identical conditions of soil, light, water and ...

Among the flowering plants that were popular among the citizen scientists: butterfly milkweed, spiderwort, black-eyed Susan, geranium, purple coneflower, common milkweed, phlox and daylily.

Bright orange milkweed aphids (Aphis nerii) usually emerge toward the end of summer and feed in clusters on the stems and leaves of common milkweed, swamp milkweed, and other milk ...