Comments on: Monarch Butterflies and Milkweed: An amazing new book https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/03/19/monarch-milkweed-book-review/ Tue, 06 Jun 2017 03:30:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: A guide to the butterflies (book review) – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/03/19/monarch-milkweed-book-review/#comment-459318 Tue, 06 Jun 2017 03:30:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23822#comment-459318 […] ————————————- See also: Monarch Butterflies and Milkweed: An amazing new book […]

]]> By: rork https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/03/19/monarch-milkweed-book-review/#comment-459317 Mon, 20 Mar 2017 19:11:11 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23822#comment-459317 Us plant huggers find the flowers and their pollination fascinating too. Many hang pollen sacks on the legs of butterflies in a tricky way.
May I recommend butterfly milkweed (or just “butterfly weed”) to gardeners, cause it’s less weedy, beautiful orange flowers that come pretty late, tough as nails to drought. It’s called Asclepias tuberosa for a reason – like a big parsnip under the ground. You don’t need to think you are helping monarchs, just enjoy the several species of butterflies when they flower.

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