Butterfly Weed or Asclepias tuberosa is one of the foundational plants of a pollinator garden in North America. These rapidly ...

Using in vitro pollen germination experiments, we quantified the effects of flower age, drying time, and pollen source on germinability of pollinia of Asclepias exaltata. Germinability varied greatly ...

Grow milkweed (Asclepias) to support monarch butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees while adding color, fragrance, and beauty to your landscape. You’ll find native milkweeds throughout North and South ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/2442044 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/2442044 Copy URL Experimental pollinations of Asclepias tuberosa L., the first for this species and ...

These underappreciated plants attract a “hungry throng” of beneficial insects. They’re not bad to look at, either. By Margaret Roach To see a field of common milkweed in midsummer — a sea of a ...

Asclepias syriaca, known as common milkweed, is the plant usually associated with the name “milkweed.” But its presence in the wild has been steadily declining because of agricultural practices, ...