Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) is a vibrant, low-maintenance native plant that supports pollinators in the garden. It's part of the milkweed family, and, like its relatives, it "supports a whole ...

Butterfly weed (also called butterfly milkweed) is a pretty, low-maintenance perennial. Here are tips on where and how to plant it from horticulturists at Iowa State University in Ames. Q: What would ...

Dear Master Gardener: My friend wanted to collect the “orange seeds” from my Asclepias tuberosa (butterfly weed) to see if he could start some new plants. I told him those were the fallen petals — the ...

The pods should be placed in a paper bag and stored a dry place before being dropped off. The bags should also be marked with the county where they were collected. Lininger said that’s to better ...

One becomes hundreds becomes thousands. And on a recent weekday, as dusk settled and autumn fell in, a group gathered in search of them: seeds. Round, rust-colored rose mallow seeds, fluff-ended ...