Asclepiadaceae

Debbie Miller, Mack Thetford, Christina Verlinde, Christina Verlinde, andGabriel Campbell

This fact sheet is also available as a chapter in a comprehensive manual titled Dune Restoration and Enhancement for the Florida Panhandle, available in pdf form here: https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/SG/SG15600.pdf. Please see the manual for more information about other useful and attractive native plants for dunes and for further information about restoration and preservation techniques.

Bernadette Mach, Jaret C. Daniels, andAdam Dale

This publication outlines the care and planting considerations of milkweed utilized to attract monarch butterflies in Florida. Its intended audience is the general public, cooperative Extension agents, landscape professionals, nursery growers, and other green industry professionals who are interested in planting milkweed or designing gardens containing milkweed to attract monarch butterflies.

Edward F. Gilman, Keighly Graves, Wendy Wilber, Tom Wichman, Claire Lewis, Gail Hansen, andRyan Klein

Butterfly weed is a Florida native milkweed species with yellow, orange, or red flowers borne on clusters above the foliage. It is a larval host plant for monarch butterflies and their relatives. It is well suited for pollinator gardens, containers, mass plantings, for naturalizing landscapes, or utilized as cut flowers in arrangements.