For butterflies & fragrance, choose common milkweed!

by Connie Oswald Stofko The flowers on common milkweed are pretty– and fragrant, too! This was in summer in the garden of Dan Murak in Snyder. Photo by Connie Oswald Stofko If you like butterflies, you probably have a kind of milkweed called butterfly flower (Asclepias tuberosa). You may even have swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata). Consider adding common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) to that mix. Not only is it a plant that monarchs love, it gets a pretty flower– and it’s fragrant! Dan Murak pointed…

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