When it blooms
In bloom: June to July
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How to grow it
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Moist
- Size
- 60–90 cm
- Family
- Apocynaceae
- Native to
- Ontario
What it feeds
Prairie Milkweed is a host plant local wildlife depends on. These are the beings it brings back.
Monarch ButterflyEndangeredButterflyA Monarch can only raise its young on milkweed. No milkweed, no Monarchs. It's that simple, and that fixable.
Photos: Photo by Derek Ramsey, GFDL 1.2
Plant it with
Other native plants the Monarch Butterfly also depends on. Grow a few together and you give it food across the whole season.
Grow Prairie Milkweed where you live
Add it to your garden on Hortus, get a free report card of the wildlife it brings back, and find a nursery near you that carries it.