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

Our study helps us better understand how such pest outbreaks may affect monarch survival on the most common ornamental milkweed species produced and planted in the South,” said Adam Dale, senior ...

Winfield, Kansas, puts common milkweed on its list of “rank” plants that harbor rats and insects, pose fire risks or blight neighborhoods. Sometimes, city codes hinge on context.

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 ...

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 ...

Milkweed is in the genus Asclepias, derived from the Greek god of medicine and healing – Asklepios. Of the 130 species in Asclepias, eleven varieties grow wild in our area. Three of the most common ...

The common milkweed, with dull pink flowers crowded together in a somewhat rounded head, is the most familiar species. It grows in a variety of open habitats, not too wet nor too dry, including ...

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.