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Milkweed Seeds In A Cup® Grow Kit

Asclepias syriaca

From the first seed to the next new leaf. Explore your plant’s growing conditions, seasonal rhythm, and everyday care.

THE PLANT NOTEBOOK

Milkweed care, from seed onward.

Extremely easy. Full sun is required. Spreads by deep underground rhizomes.

The Seeds In A Cup® kit provides a 'Home Base' for Monarchs—teaching students the critical link between plants and pollinators.

By seed (needs cold) or rhizome division.

Essential and exclusive host plant for Monarch butterfly caterpillars.

Fields, roadsides, and open sunny areas.

High drought and heat tolerance.

Oleander aphids (bright orange).

Sap is toxic if ingested and can be a skin/eye irritant; bitter taste protects caterpillars from birds.

A hardy perennial with large oval leaves and ball-like clusters of fragrant pink-purple flowers.

Standard native species.

Sustain Monarch butterfly populations. seed fluff used for textile insulation during WWII

Native to North America, east of the Rockies.

Critically important for Monarch butterfly survival; residential planting is strongly encouraged.

Named after Asclepius, the Greek god of healing; 'Milkweed' refers to its milky white sap (latex).

Milkweed fluff was the primary life-preserver filler for US Navy sailors in WWII after kapok supplies were cut.

TURN KNOWING INTO GROWING

There is no confirmed kit match for milkweed in the current catalog. Explore the collection or ask us about this plant.

THE GROWING CONVERSATION

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