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Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) | Heartland Seed of Missouri, LLC

Found on prairies, roadsides, open areas, pastures and stream banks; used for fiber, food and medicine

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How to Grow and Care for Common Milkweed

The common milkweed plant (Asclepias syriaca) is a rough, weedy plant, but it has fragrant flowers and attracts butterflies, especially the monarch.

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Common Milkweed Fact Sheet - Signs of the Seasons: A New England Phenology Program - University of Maine Cooperative Extension

Common milkweed is a perennial, herbaceous plant that grows to heights of 2 to 6 feet on solitary stalks. Milkweed gets its name from the milky sap contained in its leaves and stems. Chemicals in this sap can be poisonous to animals. However, milkweed is an important food source for…

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Which Native Milkweeds Should You Plant for Monarch Butterflies?

Want to help monarch butterflies? Be careful when selecting your milkweed. Not all plants that go by the common name of "milkweed" are the food that these butterflies need. Milkweed is both a food source and a host plant on which the monarch butterflies lay their eggs. Monarchs lay their eggs on the underside of the milkweed foliage.

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When most people think of planting milkweed for monarch butterflies, they imagine common milkweed (A. syriaca) with its big, rounded leaves.

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Common Milkweed is a host plant for Monarch Butterflies

Monarchs need milkweed plants to survive! The female lays eggs on the leaves & larva eats the plants. Milkweed is a great nectar plant for other butterflies.

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Common milkweed – Asclepias syriaca

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The most common of the milkweeds in the Tallgrass Prairie

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