Asclepias viridiflora (Short Green Milkweed) Permaculture Photos By: saeljo27 https://creativecommons

Photos By: saeljo27 https://creativecommons

Asclepias tuberosa (Butterfly Milkweed) is quite a plant

and is a resilient plant that can be installed for stream and river stabilization projects

With visitors from many different types of pollinators from bees to hummingbirds

Flower Color White & Yellow

Asclepias viridiflora (Short Green Milkweed) Permaculture Photos By: saeljo27 https://creativecommonsMonarch Butterflies are fully and exclusively dependent upon milkweeds for laying eggs and for larva food source and they can nectar. These plants were once so plentiful they were literally called weeds because they were problematic in agricultural fields. However, that's no longer the case with regular Glyphosate treatments to agricultural fields wiping out all "weeds". With fragmentation, global climate change, pollution, and other threats this is a