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2. 7 Tips for Growing Milkweed from Seed to Attract Monarch ...

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   Bradford Grimm sells milkweed seeds for 74 types of Asclepias and hosts a podcast called "Grow Milkweed Plants." 1. Choose Milkweed Native to Your Region. There are dozens of milkweed species that ...

3. Asclepias - Wikipedia

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   The leaves of Asclepias species are a food source for monarch butterfly larvae and some other milkweed butterflies. [5] These plants are often used in butterfly gardening and monarch waystations in an effort to help increase the dwindling monarch population. [21]

4. Butterfly gardening - Wikipedia

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   While butterflies like the painted lady (Vanessa cardui) [3] are known to consume over 200 plants as caterpillars, other species like the monarch (Danaus plexippus), [4] and the regal fritillary (Speyeria idalia) [5] only consume plants in one genus, milkweed and violets, respectively.

5. Asclepias syriaca - Wikipedia

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   Asclepias syriaca, commonly called common milkweed, butterfly flower, silkweed, silky swallow-wort, and Virginia silkweed, is a species of flowering plant. [2] [3] It is native to southern Canada and much of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, excluding the drier parts of the prairies. [4] It is in the genus Asclepias, the milkweeds ...

6. Multiple monarch butterfly populations likely will become ...

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   A monarch butterfly feeding on milkweed. (Shutterstock) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is pushing for added protections for the monarch butterfly after seeing a population decline of about 80%.

7. Her native plant garden brings all the butterflies to the ...

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   A bonus was a yard full of fragrance and endangered monarch butterflies. ... "I left that conversation with my first milkweed plant ... That enthusiasm has filled most of Anaya's free time since ...