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Common Milkweed Seeds (Asclepias syriaca), Organic
Common Milkweed Seeds (Asclepias syriaca), Organic

Common Milkweed Seeds (Asclepias syriaca), Organic

$4.00

Common Milkweed is also know as Butter Flower, Silkweed, Silky Swallow-wort and Virginia Silkweed.

Easy Fall/Winter seeding produces beautiful plants next summer.

Native & Pollinator  —  Essential for the Monarch Butterfly

~25 seeds

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Common Milkweed has a large purple/pink flower in the summer that smells divine!  This plant is the Monarch butterfly’s favorite host plant for their caterpillars.  If you carefully look on the backs of the milkweed leaves in mid summer you may see little yellow/orange eggs or very small caterpillars (Monarchs go through about 4 full life cycles here in Upstate NY between July and October before they migrate back to California & Mexico).

Milkweed is edible, the shoots in early Spring can be cooked and eaten like asparagus, the flowers make great fritters and the seeds with their silk can be used in casseroles and have a cheese like flavor and consistency.

Milkweed fibers can be used to make rope and the milkweed sap (latex based) can be used topically to get rid of warts.

As always when using plants for food and medicine, do your research!

Sold AsSeed
Zone3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
Annual/PerennialPerennial (Usually)
Sun (Preferred)Full Sun | Mostly Sun
Soil (Preferred)Average | Moist
Environment (Preferred)Prairie / Meadow
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Foliage ColorGreen
Flower ColorPink | Purple
Flower FragranceSweet
Fragrance IntensityStrong
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Flower SeasonSummer
Foliage SeasonSpring | Summer
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Plant TypeHerbaceous
Watering NeedsEven Moisture
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UsesCulinary (incl. herbs) | Medicinal (incl. herbs) | Naturalizing | Re-Wilding
Garden TypeButterfly | Food Forest | Herb, Medicinal | Hummingbird | Low-Maintenance | Meadow/Prairie | Native | Pollinator
Forage PlantForage Plant
Edible PartsFlower | Seed | Shoots
AttractsBees | Beneficial Insects | Butterflies | Day Pollinators
NativeMidwest | Northeast | Pacific Northwest | Rocky Mountains | Southeast
Wild/CultivatedWild
Wild HarvestedWild Harvested
OrganicGrown w/o Chemical Fertilizers | Grown w/o Herbicides | Grown w/o Pesticides
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Seed-PrepScarify | Stratify

Milkweed can definitely be tricky to germinate.  Seeds must be stratified (go through a cold period), through either planting or keeping them outside or refrigerating them inside.

Here are links to two conservation sites with information about propagating and preserving Milkweed.

https://monarchwatch.org/milkweed/prop.htm

http://www.xerces.org/publications/guidelines/milkweeds-conservation-practitioners-guide

Keep your Milkweed seeds in a cool dry area until stratifying and planting.

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