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  2. Asclepias angustifolia - Wikipedia

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    The Arizona milkweed is commercially available by both seed and propagated plants. Seed readily germinates, and mature flowering plants can be grown in as little as three months. Plants can be successfully grown in containers as small as a quart.

  3. Butterfly gardening - Wikipedia

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    In addition, the seeds of A. syriaca and some other milkweeds need periods of cold treatment (cold stratification) before they will germinate. [48] To protect seeds from washing away during heavy rains and from seed-eating birds, one can cover the seeds with a light fabric or with an 0.5 in (13 mm) layer of straw mulch. [49]

  4. Asclepias tuberosa - Wikipedia

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    Grown from seed plants will take about two to three years to reach flowering size in average conditions. [17] The seeds do not require stratification and can be immediately planted, though in commercial growing they are generally moist stratified at 5 °C for 30–60 days because this increases the germination rate.

  5. Asclepias speciosa - Wikipedia

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    The seeds of some milkweeds need periods of cold treatment (cold stratification) before they will germinate. [12] To protect seeds from washing away during heavy rains and from seed–eating birds, one can cover the seeds with a light fabric or with an 13 mm (0.5 in) layer of straw mulch. [13] However, mulch acts as an insulator. Thicker layers ...

  6. Asclepias incarnata - Wikipedia

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    Asclepias incarnata, the swamp milkweed, rose milkweed, rose milkflower, swamp silkweed, or white Indian hemp, is a herbaceous perennial plant species native to North America. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It grows in damp through wet soils and also is cultivated as a garden plant for its flowers , which attract butterflies and other pollinators with nectar .

  7. Asclepias viridis - Wikipedia

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    Asclepias viridis is a species of milkweed, a plant in the dogbane family known by the common names green milkweed, green antelopehorn and spider milkweed. [2] [3] [4] The Latin word viridis means green. The plant is native to the midwestern, south central and southeastern United States, as well as to the southeastern portion of the western ...

  8. Asclepias cordifolia - Wikipedia

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    Asclepias cordifolia is a species of milkweed commonly called heart-leaf milkweed or purple milkweed (a common name shared with another milkweed, Asclepias purpurascens). [2] It is native to the western United States (California, Nevada, Oregon), growing between 50 and 2,000 m (160 and 6,560 ft) elevation in the northern Sierra Nevada and ...

  9. Asclepias asperula - Wikipedia

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    Like several other species of milkweed, A. asperula is a food for monarch butterfly caterpillars. Along with being food for monarchs, the plants also contain toxic cardiac glycosides ( cardenolides ) that the monarchs retain, making them unpalatable and poisonous to predators .

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