Asclepias syriaca-Common milkweed

Description

As the name implies, this is the most common milkweed that we encounter in dry open fields and roadsides. It is the posterchild for teaching about the unique relationships that plants and insects have; we learn at an early age about the monarch butterfly and its reliance on this plant. The milkweed can survive without the monarch, but the monarch cannot survive without the milkweed. This is reason enough to plant these showy wildflowers around or houses, but it needs to be noted that the flowers attract a large number of diverse insect pollinators-from the stunning hummingbird/ clear wing moths to the riotous metallic beetles that feed on the leaves. Overtime they will spread to form loose colonies. Now, if we could just work on that name, weed has such a bad connotation……..

2 gal size,$16.00 (Seed grown, MOFGA certified organic.)