Milkweed For Monarchs. The monarch has become a spiritual symbol for many. Without milkweed there would be no monarch caterpillars and without monarch caterpillars there would be no monarch butterflies and without monarch butterflies there wouldn t be any eggs that monarch caterpillars hatch from.
Backyard habitat requirements for monarch butterflies. Milkweed asclepias spp is a family of perennial flowering plants that are native to africa and north and south america they are called milkweed because the plants contain latex a milky white fluid. Milkweed is a lovely wildflower and the sole host plant for monarch butterfly caterpillars.
Milkweed is a lovely wildflower and the sole host plant for monarch butterfly caterpillars.
Milkweed is a lovely wildflower and the sole host plant for monarch butterfly caterpillars. 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. Lots of people remember clouds of monarchs from childhoods past. Backyard habitat requirements for monarch butterflies.