Growing Butterfly weed from seed is easy to do and great for attracting Monarch butterflies to your garden.

I have a perennial called butterfly weed with yellow clusters of flowers. When the seed pods break, like native milkweed, lots of floating white “fairies” come out. How can I grow these seeds ...

Habitat loss for this iconic black and orange butterfly, especially along its migratory routes, is devastating monarch populations. Help a winged friend out by planting milkweed.

Butterfly weed’s standout orange flowers bloom from early summer to fall, attracting hummingbirds, native bees, and butterflies—including monarchs, which rely on milkweeds as larval host plants.

Butterfly weed is a plant with beautiful, bright-orange flowers that attract pollinators. But consider these issues before planting it in your yard.

The endangered monarch butterfly lays its eggs in milkweed plants, but there's not as many of those plants around as there used to be.

Butterfly weed can be grown from seed. A stratification period of two to four weeks is recommended for the seeds prior to planting. I place the seed packets into an airtight container in the ...

WILLMAR--The monarch butterfly is a welcome summer visitor to Minnesota, but in the past few years the butterfly population has suffered severe setbacks. Weather, lack of habitat in its wintering ...

As its common name implies, it's very attractive to butterflies. Like its relative, the common milkweed, the seeds of Butterfly Weed have little "parachutes" that help them distribute themselves.

Dear Master Gardener: My friend wanted to collect the “orange seeds” from my Asclepias tuberosa (butterfly weed) to see if he could start some new plants. I told him those were the fallen ...

Butterfly Weed Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) is a plant that will fill your garden with a variety of butterflies and keep weeds out after it has settled.

Valdes points out butterfly weed pods and shows how to remove the plume from the seed. Credit: Michelle Kanaar for Chicago Reader A label is made for various seeds.