Worried about common milkweed taking over your garden? Swamp milkweed, or red milkweed, is less aggressive but good for ...

Most milkweed plants grow best in full sun, while common milkweed is happiest in well-draining soil, and swamp milkweed may become stressed and prone to aphids if it’s not grown in moist earth.

Many plants defend themselves against herbivory ... As its common name implies, swamp milkweed (A. incarnata), with its distinctive magenta flowers on stems of up to about four feet, can handle ...

The goal of the project is to restore and preserve habitats for numerous pollinator species by planting milkweed.

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 ...

She gave us a small takeout bowl containing our three cats and a couple of swamp milkweed leaves. The cats were a centimeter long, at most, but even at that size, the characteristic yellow ...

having more milkweed plants, planting swamp milkweed and having an array of nectar-producing flowering plants. “The biggest thing is if you can, plant native milkweed species — ideally ...