Common Milkweed Leaf. Flowers and fruit. It is one of about 115 species that occur in the americas.
Add to likebox 107510298 blooming common milkweed or butterfly flower close up colorful. Tuberosa and. Anthropogenic man made or disturbed habitats forest edges meadows and fields.
Common milkweed asclepias syriaca is a native herbaceous perennial whose main virtue is its appeal to butterflies especially the monarch which deposits its eggs on the milkweed when the caterpillars hatch they feed on the leaves of milkweed.
Common milkweed asclepias syriaca is a native herbaceous perennial whose main virtue is its appeal to butterflies especially the monarch which deposits its eggs on the milkweed when the caterpillars hatch they feed on the leaves of milkweed. The outer bark was also used to make cord thread and bowstrings. Common milkweed is a member of the asclepiadaceae milkweed family. Both the brightly colored adults and larvae chew on the foliage of milkweeds primarily swamp milkweed although they have been recorded on common milkweed butterflyweed a.