Asclepias verticillata (whorled milkweed)

whorled milkweed (quart)


Whorled milkweed may not look like your standard milkweed, but the monarchs like it just as much. Small white-colored umbels grace the tops of these plants June through September, attracting butterflies and hummingbirds. It grows best in dry, well-drained soils in full sun. Will readily self-seed, making it a perfect addition to any butterfly garden, meadow, or naturalized landscape.

Whorled milkweed is native to most of eastern North America. Its native habitats include glades, dry prairies, dry slopes, dry open woods, pastures, fields, and roadsides. This species can produce vegetatively and does not depend on pollinators, but it does produce some nectar, mostly in the early evening hours. Insect visitors to the plant include wasps, honeybees, and moths such as the cabbage white. Like other milkweeds, this is a host plant for the monarch butterfly whose capterpillars feed on the leaves.

 

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