Monarch butterflies are making their flight north after wintering in Mexico. Here's what to know about the fascinating, fragile traveler.

These late-blooming plants native to North America help feed butterflies — especially monarchs-— at a crucial point.

Just a few years ago, the eastern monarch was considered endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature ...

And March 12 is National Plant a Flower Day, the perfect day to bask in the sunlight and plant flowers that will help ...

Butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) is one of the tamer milkweeds with lots of ornamental appeal. This adaptable milkweed is hardy in zones three to ten and was named the 2017 Perennial Plant ...

Milkweed, the preferred food of monarch butterflies ... we want beautiful showy flowers,” said Dorian. The movement to plant butterfly gardens has really taken off in the past decade.

purple coneflower and swamp milkweed. The nice thing is that butterflies want the same thing as humans. “We like a big diversity of colors, we want beautiful showy flowers,” said Dorian. The movement ...

A fritillary butterfly perches on blooming milkweed at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Md., June 5, 2019. (AP ...