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Perennial

Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed)

Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed)

$6.00
$6.00
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Easy to grow, easy to collect your own seeds. As the name implies, this is the most common milkweed in southern Wisconsin. Like all milkweeds, it is a host plant for monarch butterflies. It spreads quickly by rhizome, so might need some “editing” in a small garden.

  • Sunlight: Full Sun and Partial
  • Water: Dry and Medium
  • Height: 2 to 4 feet
  • Bloom time: June, July, and August

Highly competitive, Feeds bees, Feeds butterflies or moths, Feeds hummingbirds, Host plant, and Deer-resistant

Plants are sold as small pots (2.5" x 3.5")

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