Asclepias syriaca (Common Milkweed) Grow Under Pines html) or CC BY 3

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It is distinguished from similar asters by larger light blue flowers

and pollinators

Flower Time July

White flowers give way to berry-like drupes that change from white to blue as they ripen in late summer

Asclepias syriaca (Common Milkweed) Grow Under Pines html) or CC BY 3Monarch Butterflies are fully and exclusively dependent upon milkweeds for laying eggs and for larva food source and they can nectar. These plants were once so plentiful they were literally called weeds because they were problematic in agricultural fields. However, that's no longer the case with regular Glyphosate treatments to agricultural fields wiping out all "weeds". With fragmentation, global climate change, pollution, and other threats this is a