Asclepias sullivantii (Prairie Milkweed)

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Asclepias sullivantii (Prairie Milkweed)Monarch 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

This biennial plant is a medium height native plant

Sun Exposure Prairie/Savanna

Soil Conditions Dry-Mesic- Mesic

but can take over a large space over time

Tall Thimbleweed features clean white flowers beginning in June

A great moist woodland garden fern

Photo By George F Mayfield [CC BY-SA 2

Add mid-season structural interest in any medium shade garden by adding a native grass

Sun Exposure: part shade

Follow all fertilizer label instructions

It can be very aggressive particularity on small landscapes

it is a larval host for silvery checkerspot butterflies and a handful of moths