What Is Swamp Milkweed? Plenty of gardeners have heard of common milkweed. Many probably consider it the No. 1 monarch host ...

Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed monarch butterflies, whose numbers in the ...

As scientists stress the importance of providing as much of this valuable plant as possible, gardeners often ask: Does ...

All milkweed plants — tropical or native — are good for butterflies and other pollinators, right? For the most part, that’s true. However, there is much debate between policymakers and the ...

Congress should establish federal tax credits for landowners who restore habitat by planting native milkweed and nectar plants that support pollinators like hummingbirds and butterflies.

and so are milkweed seed pods starting to dry out in preparation of being harvested. Milkweed is the only host plant of monarch butterflies, meaning it’s the only plant on which monarchs will ...

PETOSKEY, MI – Lauri Juday carries around little packets of common milkweed seeds and gives them to anyone who promises to plant them. That’s because monarch butterflies need native milkweed ...

"Last year, Project Milkweed distributed 779,601 seed packets across Tennessee," TDOT said in a release. "Plant species and seed material quantities are being offered like last year, with a ...

Monarch butterflies are afoot locally, according to staff at the Deschutes Land Trust, a local nonprofit that works to restore and preserve land tracts and waters that sustain central Oregon.