Common Milkweed

Asclepias syriaca

A home for the Monarch

A Monarch can only raise its young on milkweed. No milkweed, no Monarchs. It's that simple, and that fixable.

⚠ Supports a species at risk

Who this brings back

Supports 4 species at risk.

Little Brown BatEndangeredBat
Disease wiped out most of them. A single bat eats thousands of insects a night, the ones night-blooming natives raise.
Chimney SwiftThreatenedBird
It catches every meal on the wing. Native plants sustain the insects it lives on.
Eastern Whip-poor-willThreatenedBird
Named for its haunting call, now seldom heard. It depends on the large moths native plants raise.

Photos: Photo by Marvin Moriarty/USFWS, public domain · Photo by Andrew C, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Dominic Sherony, CC BY-SA 2.0

Where it grows

Old fields, roadsides, and disturbed open ground.

Other plants the Monarch Butterfly needs