Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) is a perennial plant that serves as a vital host for monarch butterflies, offering food and shelter for monarch caterpillars. This fast-growing native plant can ...

Growing milkweed from seed is an easy way to make your garden a monarch landing zone.

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. Across the Midwest ...

The plant most gardeners buy to save the monarch butterfly is quietly making things worse. Every spring, nurseries and ...

With the declining population of monarchs in the news so often these days, many home gardeners are choosing to add milkweed to their gardens to help support this beautiful butterfly. This is a ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Cuyahoga County Soil and Water Conservation District and districts statewide are participating in common milkweed seed collection, which runs through Oct. 31. The effort is ...

LISBON –If you plant them they will come. Milkweed, that is! Milkweed and Monarch butterflies have an essential connection because the monarchs only lay their eggs on the leaves of the milkweed plant.

If you've ever walked through a meadow in midsummer, chances are you've seen the tall stalks of common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) standing proudly with clusters of pinkish-purple flowers. At first ...

Honeyvine milkweed, a native Indiana plant related to the common milkweed, is considered a weed due to its aggressive growth. While the vine's roots are hardy and difficult to kill, regular trimming ...