Is a plant from South America better than a cultivar in WNY?

This milkweed plant is native to Western New York. Try to get plants that are native to our region. Photo by Connie Oswald Stofko by Connie Oswald Stofko A reader contacted me regarding a previous article on zinnias. The reader wanted native zinnias, and the zinnias described in the article were all cultivars, not native plants. No one around here sells native zinnias because zinnias aren’t native to Western New York. In the United States, zinnias are native only to…