It has pink, purple, or white blooms. Whorled milkweed does well in the Eastern part of the U.S. and some parts of the West.

It grows along roadsides and in fields. This milkweed plant grows in wet environments along stream banks or in wetlands. It ...

Milkweed, the common name of the genus Asclepias, is an incredibly popular and diverse native plant that grows across the United States, from the Northeast to the Great Lakes to the Southwest.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday proposed to add the monarch butterfly to the threatened species list.

The prostrate milkweed’s low and sprawling leaves and stem wilt during droughts. But the plant’s subterranean tuber stays alive and after soaking up moisture from occasional tropical storms sends up ...