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Asclepias syriaca
A Monarch can only raise its young on milkweed. No milkweed, no Monarchs. It's that simple, and that fixable.
⚠ Supports a species at riskWho this brings back
Supports 8 species at risk.
Once common across eastern North America, now almost gone. It feeds on wild bergamot and asters, flowers any yard can grow.
The bees it relies on need these same native blooms. Plant for one, and you feed both.
Disease wiped out most of them. A single bat eats thousands of insects a night, the ones night-blooming natives raise.
A bird that once nested on every farm, now threatened. Native plants feed the flying insects it catches on the wing.
It catches every meal on the wing. Native plants sustain the insects it lives on.
Its dusk call is going quiet. It hunts the night-flying moths that evening-primrose and milkweed raise.
Named for its haunting call, now seldom heard. It depends on the large moths native plants raise.
Photos: Photo by USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, public domain · Photo by Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Photo by Marvin Moriarty/USFWS, public domain · Photo by Malene Thyssen, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo by Andrew C, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Greg Schechter, 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