Audubon® Native Got Milkweed

We're making it easy to help out your native butterfly population here at Nature Hills by introducing the Audubon® Native Got Milkweed (Asclepias var.) selection!

Our nursery experts pick out the best Milkweed best suited for your region to ship to you -- selecting either a Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata), a Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa), or a Showy Milkweed (Asclepias speciosa) that does best in your area and does the most for your local butterflies!

All three varieties feature showy blooms, and are rugged and hardy native plants and loaded with rich nectar resources for your local pollinators! All are also valuable host plants for Monarch caterpillars and food sources for adult Monarch populations.

Perennial natives are fantastic survivors, tolerating a wide range of conditions and environments, with little to no work from you! Give kids and garden visitors a delightful tour through our natural world. Nature Hills is so pleased to offer this special clump-forming perennial!

Unique, fleshy leaves and clump-forming masses, Native Milkweed are found throughout the United States from dry and arid to swamps and wet sites. Cold hardy and heat tolerant, the foliage has unique milky sap and they feature spikey seed pods that split open to reveal white fluff and brown seeds.

There are no significant insect or disease issues with Milkweeds so order this excellent addition for your landscape today!

How to Use Audubon® Native Got Milkweed In The Landscape

Swamp Milkweeds with their sweet and spicy fragrant pink and white blooms are very dramatic and showy. Taller, clump-forming perennials, they’re fantastic workhorses in locations that may have occasionally soggy soils.

The Butterfly Weed Milkweed, sometimes called Butterflyweed, is a fantastic bright orange bloom with bushy, shorter growth and lance-shaped leaves. Equally beneficial to pollinators and Monarch butterflies, these are tough clump-forming perennials as well!

The Showy Milkweed is also quite the looker and tough as nails as its native cousins. Bright white stars transition to pink and held aloft on a lovely green clump of foliage with pink stems and veins.

All 3 varieties are fantastic among Cottage and Perennial garden settings as well as in more wild areas, meadows, Prairie restoration and drifts for Pollinator gardens! While tolerant of wet sites, they are equally at home in the Rock garden as well!

Thriving in full sun and poor conditions, there’s few areas any of these three varieties will not do well! Our experts will select the one best suited to your region and ship it to you!

Milkweeds would be perfect for those difficult, low spots in your yard, as it thrives in moist conditions. Use them in planned Rain Gardens to help filter potentially polluted water runoff from roofs and streets.

Milkweed contains natural compounds like cardenolides, which protect the baby caterpillars from being eaten by birds. You'll love seeing the cute black, white and yellow caterpillars on your own plants!

Wildcrafters and homesteaders can research an amazing variety of uses. In its various stages, Milkweed pods are used as a nematode insecticide, as an adhesive, and even as a poison ivy treatment.

Fantastic additions to floral arrangements, even after the flowers have faded, Milkweed forms eye-catching four-inch seed pods that are a favorite of young and old alike. Once ripe, they'll split to release the brown seeds...using silky white hair to catch the wind and reach new destinations.

#ProPlantTips For Care

Full sun locations are best for all of these types of Milkweed species. For the strongest stems and most vigorous growth, provide at least 6 hours of direct sunlight a day.

These plants tolerate a wide range of well-drained soil conditions, poor and rocky, gravel, dry arid sites, hot baked ground or occasionally flooded areas, they will do amazingly once established.

Milkweed is an attractive, herbaceous perennial and is best cut back to the ground in early spring. Please leave the stalks standing over winter, as they provide valuable shelter. To prevent the spread of unwanted Milkweed seeds, remove the pods while they’re still green. Or let them self-seed and spread to further aid your local butterfly population if you have the room for them to roam!

Regular waterings while young plants are establishing, however drought-tolerant once settled into their new homes, protect your investment by providing supplemental moisture in times of need.

Learn more about supporting local Butterfly populations here in our Garden Blog!

Audubon® Native Got Milkweed is a fantastic, hardy native plant that will call pollinators and help out your local butterfly population immensely! Order your cold-hardy butterfly magnets from NatureHills.com today and we’ll ship out the best one for your area!