Butterfly milkweed has lots of ornamental appeal. This adaptable milkweed is hardy in many zones and was named the 2017 Perennial Plant of the Year.

Recommended Varieties: Lance-leaf coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata) is an easy-to-grow variety that’s native to most of the ...

Grow milkweed (Asclepias) to support monarch butterflies ... The flowers are followed by narrow pods that release silky-haired seeds like other milkweeds. It grows best in full sun with moist ...

Kentucky’s State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP) summarizes the status of the state’s vulnerable wildlife species and the ...

Plants grow fast in Florida ... There will be two varieties of milkweed that sprout early. (Asclepias tuberosa sprouts late, so if you planted it last year, don’t weed it out accidently.) ...

Just a few years ago, the eastern monarch was considered endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature ...

“Classifying biota [the plants and animals of a region] according ... The showy milkweed (Asclepias speciosa) is often planted in Eastern gardens and considered native because it grows in ...

On June 8, 2011, the journal Nature published a commentary by 19 ecologists who urged conservationists to “assess organisms ...