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Asclepias syriaca
A Monarch can only raise its young on milkweed. No milkweed, no Monarchs. It's that simple, and that fixable.
⚠ Supports a species at riskWho this brings back
Supports 8 species at risk.
A Monarch can only raise its young on milkweed. No milkweed, no Monarchs. It's that simple, and that fixable.
Once common across eastern North America, now almost gone. It feeds on wild bergamot and asters, flowers any yard can grow.
An endangered bee that depends on the same native blooms its host bees need. Plant for one, help both.
Disease wiped out most of them. A single bat eats thousands of insects a night, the ones night-blooming natives raise.
A bird that once nested on every farm, now threatened. Native plants feed the flying insects it catches on the wing.
It catches every meal on the wing. Native plants keep the insects it depends on in the air.
Its dusk call is going quiet. It hunts the night-flying moths that evening-primrose and milkweed raise.
Named for its haunting call, now seldom heard. It depends on the large moths native plants feed.
Where it grows
Old fields, roadsides, and disturbed open ground.
Other plants the Monarch Butterfly needs