Milkweed A Perennial. Its ramets grow from rhizomes all parts of common milkweed plants produce white latex when broken. Common milkweed is a clonal perennial herb growing up to 2 6 m 8 5 ft tall.
This tough perennial helps out monarchs and the flowers are a great nectar source for many other pollinators. Blooming from spring to fall the flowers are borne atop sturdy stems that are densely covered with minute hairs. Across 5 cm of tiny flowers each adorned with 5 upright pale green petals that cup upward over 5 white hoods.
Asclepias asperula antelope horns milkweed is a clump forming perennial of upright or sprawling habit boasting amazingly intricate rounded clusters 2 in.
The plant reproduces by seeds and creeping underground roots. 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. Blooming from spring to fall the flowers are borne atop sturdy stems that are densely covered with minute hairs. Its ramets grow from rhizomes all parts of common milkweed plants produce white latex when broken.
