Common milkweed provides nectar for butterflies, and is the only food source for monarch caterpillars, but is it right for ...

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Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) and swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) are two of the most common yet most important species for monarchs in the Northeast. These plants in the milkweed family ...

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.

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.

Common milkweed can also be an aggressive plant and requires maintenance in some landscaping situations. This story was reported from Los Angeles. Wild Nature California News ...

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.

The striking orange-and-black monarchs, known for their remarkable migration to and from Mexico each year, only lay their eggs in milkweed plants, of which there are many types in the United States.