Should You Grow Common Milkweed? 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 ...

What is a chaotic native perennial? The concept of chaos-gardening is trending (think of it as re-wilding, rebranded for 2026 ...

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 ...

Asclepias syriaca, known as common milkweed, is the plant usually associated with the name “milkweed.” But its presence in the wild has been steadily declining because of agricultural practices, ...

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 ...

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 ...