Grow milkweed (Asclepias) to support monarch butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees while adding color, fragrance, and beauty to your landscape. You’ll find native milkweeds throughout North and South ...

Grow milkweed (Asclepias) to support monarch butterflies, hummingbirds and bees while adding color, fragrance and beauty to your landscape. You’ll find native milkweeds throughout North and South ...

Commonly known as milkweed, Asclepias is a genus of herbaceous, perennial plants in the Apocynaceae (dogbane) plant family. Named for Asclepius, the Greek god of healing, plants exude a sticky, milky ...

Flower beds have long been a staple element in most gardens. While groups of blooms aren't going anywhere, trends indicate ...

Milkweeds are not the most spectacular of flowering perennials, but they can look highly effective as fillers and textural foils in plant combinations. They are a must in any sunny herbaceous garden ...

Question: Hi Carol, it's so interesting that you recently wrote an article on milkweed. I have purchased plants (Asclepias syriaca “Virginia Silk”) from Annie’s Garden, which I plan to plant in a ...

These underappreciated plants attract a “hungry throng” of beneficial insects. They’re not bad to look at, either. By Margaret Roach To see a field of common milkweed in midsummer — a sea of a ...

Seed predation in relation to patterns of pod (and seed) distribution was examined in five samples of the common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca L.), in tests of the "resource-concentration" effect both ...

When you’re out flower shopping this season, don’t forget to add a member or two – more is better -- of the asclepias family, better known as milkweed, to your shopping list. Unlike the many beautiful ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In milkweeds (Asclepiadaceae) pollen is produced in paired packages (pollinia) and pollination occurs when a pollinium is inserted by a ...