Syriaca Milkweed. Start the seeds in a week using water germination or sow in the fall for a more natural method called cold moist stratification. Leaves opposite smooth margined oblong 10 20 cm long and 5 11 cm wide with prominent veins.
The extremely fragrant blooms attract and benefit many pollinators. The common milkweed a. This is a tall and conspicuous species that sometimes forms large clones.
Asclepias syriaca commonly called common milkweed butterfly flower silkweed silky swallow wort and virginia silkweed is a species of flowering plant it is in the genus asclepias the milkweeds this species is native to southern canada and of much of the conterminous eastern u s east of the rocky mountains excluding the drier parts of the prairies.
Syriaca common milkweed is a perennial herb with long spreading rhizomes. Common milkweed is a very common plant of meadows and prairies ranging from north dakota to maine and south to oklahoma and south carolina. 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 umbels bear large balls of pink to purplish flowers that have an attractive odor.