This under-$15 flowering milkweed plant, which you can get with free, two-day Prime shipping on Amazon, will bring all the butterflies to your yard this spring and summer.

Although monarch butterflies do pollinate milkweeds as they draw nectar, pollination isn’t their primary relationship. Monarchs mostly need milkweed as a host plant for its caterpillars. Milkweed ...

Tropical milkweed is a harmful plant that can trick both humans and monarch butterflies, and is contributing to declining monarch populations. News Today's news ...

A few days before Thanksgiving, I visited a master-gardener neighbor who has a beautiful landscape of hardy, water-wise native and adapted plants. Among them, 5-foot-tall Mexican milkweed plants ...

They know something that anyone who gives milkweed refuge will soon learn: If you welcome this plant, a diverse, living fan base will follow close behind — and not only monarch butterflies. If ...

Oliver Hernandez, of Overland, Kansas, 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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Empty milkweed pods in winter, like the ones pictured here, look like beautiful birds to me. And they remind me that milkweed used to be everywhere. As kids, we'd catch its ...