Perennials provide excellent value, offering potentially years of stunning blooms with minimal effort required. Plant once ...

Monarch butterflies depend on the milkweed plant as the only food source for its larvae, but the monarchs benefit from the ...

Wisconsin Public Radio Take a bow, milkweed. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has named milkweed its “Plant ...

The Mountain Lake PBS Pollination Station is back and blooming in its fifth year on the lawn of 1 Sesame Street—our home base ...

An eastern monarch butterfly feeds on the flowers of a swamp milkweed plant, a source of nectar and the monarch’s host plant. / Teune, Wikimedia Commons The Keller Science Action Center at Chicago’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...