Flowers blooming in my garden (in deep South Texas) this week... #Lilies #Amaryllis #Comfry #Asclepias

66302.01 Asclepias syriaca #Asclepiassyriaca #Asclepias #milkweed #native #seedpod #seeds #blowing #dispersal #wildflower

After a long dormant season in the studio, conditions were finally right for this painting

Tanawha Milkweed, oil on panel,
12 x 9” 2025

#art #oilpainting #landscape #asclepias

Clumps of wrinkly, brown seeds scattered on wet soil.

For monarch fans, just a reminder that now is the perfect time to start stratifying milkweed seeds so that they'll germinate in the spring. #monarch #butterflies #milkweed #asclepias

What well-loved milkweed looks like at the end of the season. But man, it made some serious pollinators, critters and tree frogs so happy!
Thank you to all my milkweed: syriaca, incarnata, exaltata, & tuberosa🌸 You all work so hard to feed our ecosystem.
#asclepiassyriaca #nativeplants #asclepias

A sign describing the planting requirements of butterfly milkweed with a drawing of the flowers and a monarch butterfly.

Butterfly Weed pods in a green plastic pot. Some seeds that have already split open are in bags to prevent them from flying everywhere.

Passing out Butterfly Weed to the neighborhood. I was given a bunch of seed pods and don’t know what to do with them all. #asclepias #nativeplants

Yellow flowers of milkweed

Highland #milkweed from Bolivia, #Asclepias barjoniifolia #flowers

A monarch caterpillar head sticking out from the underside of a partially eaten milkweed leaf

A monarch caterpillar with stripes of yellow, black, and white

A closer view of the monarch caterpillar

Peeping Tom

📍D.A.R. State Forest, Goshen, MA
#asclepias
#nativeplants

65921.01 Asclepias syriaca #Asclepiassyriaca #Asclepias #milkweed #seed #seeds #winddibpersal #flying #falling

Restocking #Asclepias spp for your hungry #monarch caterpillars, but we also have a TON of #nativeplant nectar options in the Nursery for the adults! Page 16 of this @xercessociety.bsky.social plant list is for the Mid-Atlantic! 21 out of 25 of these species are in stock!

65920.01 Asclepias syriaca #Asclepiassyriaca #Asclepias #milkweed #pods #sliced #slices #crosssection #seedpod #seeds

62904.01 Asclepias syriaca #Asclepiassyriaca #Asclepias #milkweed #pod #pods #seedpods #pattern #wildflower #native

#Asclepias is a genus of herbaceous, perennial, flowering plants known as milkweeds, named for their latex, a milky substance containing cardiac glycosides termed cardenolides, exuded where cells are damaged.[4][5][6] Most species are toxic

#Asclepias is a genus of herbaceous, perennial, flowering plants known as milkweeds, named for their latex, a milky substance containing cardiac glycosides termed cardenolides, exuded where cells are damaged.[4][5][6] Most species are toxic

Butterfly in flight above whorled milkweed plants with black forewings marked on the underside with one row each of yellow triangles and circles near the trailing wing margin. The hind wing also bears two parallel rows of yellow marks, but with intervening blue polygons and conspicuious tails. The body is also black with yellow spots along the side of the abdomen.

Butterfly in flight approaching a whorled milkweed plant in bloom with black forewings marked on the underside with one row each of yellow triangles and circles near the trailing wing margin. The hind wing also bears two parallel rows of yellow marks, but with intervening blue polygons and conspicuious tails. The body is also black with yellow spots along the side of the abdomen.

Butterfly in flight just before contacting a whorled milkweed plant with black forewings marked on the underside with one row each of yellow triangles and circles near the trailing wing margin. The hind wing also bears two parallel rows of yellow marks, but with intervening blue polygons and conspicuious tails. The body is also black with yellow spots along the side of the abdomen.

Butterfly resting on a whorled milkweed plant with black forewings marked on the underside with one row each of yellow triangles and circles near the trailing wing margin. The hind wing also bears two parallel rows of yellow marks, but with intervening blue polygons and conspicuious tails. The body is also black with yellow spots along the side of the abdomen.

Coming in for a landing! Black #swallowtail #butterflies, #Papilio #polyxenes, approaching & landing to nectar on whorled #milkweed, #Asclepias verticillate, in central #Illinois, #USA

On a deep green blurred leafy BG, a cluster of small brilliant orange flowers and several buds. The flowers are an unusual pentagonal shape and anatomy (https://www.naturedigger.com/milkweed-anatomy).

#Asclepias tuberosa, butterflyweed aka orange milkweed
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany

#Asclepias is a genus of herbaceous, perennial, flowering plants known as #milkweeds, named for their latex, a milky substance containing cardiac glycosides termed cardenolides, exuded where cells are damaged.[4][5][6] Most species are

#Asclepias is a genus of herbaceous, perennial, flowering plants known as #milkweeds, named for their latex, a milky substance containing cardiac glycosides termed cardenolides, exuded where cells are damaged.[4][5][6] Most species are

#Asclepias is a genus of herbaceous, perennial, flowering plants known as #milkweeds, named for their latex, a milky substance containing cardiac glycosides

#Asclepias is a genus of herbaceous, perennial, flowering plants known as #milkweeds, named for their latex, a milky substance containing cardiac glycosides

A Monarch butterfly is feeding on Eutrochium (Joe Pye species).

We are often asked how to attract #Monarch butterflies to gardens. Yes they need #asclepias species to lay eggs on, but they also need nectar plants! #Eutrochium #Liatris #Monarda are some of their favorites right now. What are the adults feeding on in your gardens? #plantnative #savepollinators

Monarch on the milkweed #monarch #butterfly #lepidoptera #milkweed #asclepias

A flawless spicebush butterfly with her wings open feeding on an orange milkweed (asclepias tuberosa) flower.

She's flawless 😍🦋

A spicebush swallowtail feeding on a milkweed blossom.

#milkweed #asclepias
#butterfly #butterflies
#nature #naturephotography #photography
#macro #macrophotography
#swallowtail #swallowtails #swallowtailbutterfly

Black and white striped caterpillar with yellow markings

Caterpillar of the #Queen #butterfly, #Danaus gilippus, A close relative of the #monarch, here feeding on the pine leaf #milkweed, #Asclepias linaria (perhaps the most toxic milkweed of all)

Red and yellow flowers of the tropical milkweed

The tropical #milkweed, #Asclepias curassavica. Note the wishbone-shaped pollinia, embedded in floral tissue. When large-bodied hymenopterans climb over #flowers to drink nectar with their spiny legs, they'll pull pollinia out, and with some luck, insert them into the slit of another plant

Foliage and Pink flowers of Swamp Milkweed / Asclepias incarnata 'Large Marge'

🌱 Swamp Milkweed / #Asclepias incarnata 'Large Marge'

65753.01 Asclepias syriaca #Asclepiassyriaca #Asclepias #milkweed #flowerbud #flowerbuds #round #circle #mandala #wildflower #native

65748.05 Asclepias syriaca #Asclepiassyriaca #Asclepias #milkweed #flowers #psychedelic

m i l k w e e d
a celebration of summer

to nourish the butterflies

#Asclepias #milkweed #photography #nature #flora #monotone #summer #botanical #pollinator #artofvisual

Heliopsis 'Bleeding Hearts' yellow to red bloom pictured. Inventory link; https://www.laurensgardenservice.com/inventory/

Good evening #nativeplant people! We restocked heat loving #perennials including the stunning #Heliopsis 'Bleeding Hearts' and #asclepias species. We are open our regular hours tomorrow from 10AM-5PM! #plantnative to celebrate this land. Veggie plants are now 50% off!