(Odds are if you get milkweed plants from a local garden society or conservation group, they will have done this research for ...

The iconic monarch butterfly is declining across North America. You can help make a difference by providing the species with ...

Monarch butterflies depend on human intervention to thrive in the wild, as highlighted by the traveling exhibit "Monarchs and ...

It can be one of the last plants to emerge ... Need another bonus for why you should grow butterfly milkweed? Here’s one; because it is in the milkweed family it is a larval host plant for ...

ALEXANDRIA — The National Garden Bureau has named 2025 the Year of Asclepias (milkweed) — and for good reason. This resilient ...

If you set a resolution for the new year, it may have involved a personal “glow up”—a positive transformation of self. You may be focused on eating healthier, getting fit, or quitting a bad habit. But ...

Among the thousand and thousands of monarch butterflies heading south to Mexico this fall are a couple hundred born, raised, and released at Bluff Creek Elementary School in Chanhassen. And when ...

Buffelgrass displaces native plants and is very difficult to control. Under natural conditions the prostrate milkweed is thought to be able to persist at low densities. It produces so much nectar that ...