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Make sure you plant native milkweed. The exotic kind is not good for the butterflies.
by david2ndaccount 3y ago
Make sure you plant native milkweed. The exotic kind is not good for the butterflies.
- Bud 3y agoAny recommended resources for determining which milkweed might be native in a given area?
- 01100011 3y agoIf you're in California, I always recommend https://www.laspilitas.com/ https://www.laspilitas.com/ They have a couple nurseries but their website has a lot of good info. There's also https://www.cnps.org/ https://www.cnps.org/ and https://theodorepayne.org/ https://theodorepayne.org/
- roflchoppa 3y agoThanks I’ve been looking for another online supplier.
- libraryatnight 3y agoIn Phoenix our botanical garden has information.
- Loughla 3y agoCall your local extension from the University of [State]. They have experts that can help you, and probably have programs to supply you with the seeds for no cost.
- clbrmbr 3y agoBy “kind” are you referring to a species or a subspecies? To my knowledge Asclepias syriaca is native only to North America. But there are other plants——most infamously Phragmites australis——where it’s native but there’s an invasive subspecies that is sadly displacing the great cattail swamps. (Sad because a cattail swamp is a huge caloric reservoir. I know I wouldn’t starve so long as we’ve got all those cattails…) Certainly there are non-native Asclepias species. But there’s also other interesting native species like A. incarnata that makes great cut flowers if the aphids don’t get too out of hand.