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MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announces milkweed as the Rare Plant Monitoring Program’s 2025 Plant of the Year and encourages planting milkweed to help monarchs.

Milkweed is vital for monarch butterflies, serving as the only plant for laying eggs and feeding caterpillars. Five of Wisconsin's 13 native milkweed species are listed as endangered, threatened ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources announced on Wednesday that milkweed is the Rare Plant Monitoring Program's 2025 Plant of the Year. The DNR encouraged people to keep ...

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has declared milkweed as the department's Rare Plant Monitoring Program's 2025 Plant of the Year on Wednesday, encouraging ...

Yes, please. Milkweed attracts butterflies and bees, essential pollinators for green environments to thrive. However, be mindful of where you plant milkweed, as it can spread quickly to other ...

Because monarchs will only lay eggs on milkweed plants, Burnett recommends growing Kansas native milkweed, including common milkweed, butterfly weed, and swamp milkweed. Although they won’t lay ...

The retreating continental glacier not only created the landscape which became today’s Cicero Swamp and Cicero Bog, it marooned unusual plants and animals not typically found in Upstate New York.