A Monarch caterpillar on a milkweed leaf from the book “Nature’s Best Hope: How You Can Save the World in Your Own Yard” by Douglas W. Tallamy.

Source: https://triblive.com/aande/books/book-invites-kids-to-turn-native-gardens-into-national-park/

But once at Chuco’s, a street-smart community center, you’ll see milkweed and sunflowers thriving in a patch of jackhammered asphalt, surrounded by raised beds of dazzling blue nigella and leafy greens bursting out of hydroponic towers.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2023-06-01/los-angeles-trees-that-deserve-as-much-love-as-jacarandas

But some farmers have planted milkweed on the side of their crop fields to counter destroying milkweeds in their fields, Melkonoff said.

Source: https://ktar.com/story/5468996/desert-botanical-garden-nurtures-endangered-monarchs/

Common milkweed, horse nettle, jimsonweed, common pokeweed, cressleaf & common groundsel, pigweed, black nightshade, mountain laurels, and rhododendrons are all considered poisonous plants commonly found in Ohio.

Source: https://www.peoplesdefender.com/2023/10/04/can-my-livestock-eat-that/

From market vendor Snell Family Farm of Buxton, I bought a centerpiece made with a mix of pine and fir boughs, dried seed heads, milkweed pods, small gourds, an apple and a candle.

Source: https://www.centralmaine.com/2023/11/12/thanksgiving-without-the-turkey-cream-eggs-bring-it-on/

Monarch habitats contain milkweed hosts for the caterpillars and nectar plants for the adult butterflies to reproduce, and there are limited available environments for monarch reproduction.

Source: https://badgerherald.com/news/2023/11/02/recent-study-shows-monarch-butterfly-populations-in-decline/

Narrowleaf milkweed (Asclepias fascicularis) blooming in the California summer.

Source: https://www.pressenterprise.com/2023/09/01/what-to-plant-in-your-garden-right-now-to-ensure-a-fall-bounty/

Part of her garden includes a patch of milkweed, which Klusman planted in an effort to attract monarch butterflies to her front porch.

Source: https://www.salisburypost.com/2023/09/23/field-aflutter-salisbury-yard-attracts-monarch-butterflies-during-southward-migration/

Third-graders Marci Rogers and Eliza Harmon harvest milkweed seeds from a milkweed pod at Cornerstone Montessori Elementary School in St. Paul on Thursday, March 16, 2023.

Source: https://www.twincities.com/2023/03/26/urban-roots-environmental-education-st-paul-elementary-school/

Third-graders Marci Rogers and Eliza Harmon harvest milkweed seeds from a milkweed pod at Cornerstone Montessori Elementary School in St. Paul on Thursday, March 16, 2023.

Source: https://www.twincities.com/2023/03/26/urban-roots-environmental-education-st-paul-elementary-school/

This can be trees (from sugar maple to bur oaks), perennials (from swamp milkweed to black-eyed susan), or shrubs (from ninebark to prickly rose).

Source: https://themeafordindependent.ca/volunteer-seed-collectors-needed/

You’ll find two of my favorite native plants at the sale: Pink swamp milkweed and Indian pinks.

Source: https://ecbpublishing.com/pretty-in-pink-at-goodwood/