Asclepias exaltata (Poke Milkweed) Size:0.25 lbs Seed part shade

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This native is an adaptable cool season clumping grass commonly found in wet prairies and sedge meadows

This is short to medium perennial woodland plant that is named from its "zig-zag" flower stalk

it is the larval host of several moths and the seeds are eaten by songbirds

Plant them in large drifts of full flats and watch the magic happen

Asclepias exaltata (Poke Milkweed) Size:0.25 lbs Seed part shadeMonarch 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