People can help monarch butterflies by planting milkweed, their primary food source ... and-yellow monarch butterflies soon will return to Michigan as they finish their overwintering in Mexico ...

(Michigan spans three different growing zones ... It grows best in full sun with moist soil and is less aggressive than common milkweed. Grow this milkweed in sunny mixed borders, natural ...

Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca ... 90,000 pounds of milkweed were dried and sent to Petroskey Fair Grounds in Michigan to be processed. By the end of the war, 11 million pounds had been ...

Milkweed, the common name of the genus Asclepias, is an incredibly popular and diverse native plant that grows across the United States, from the Northeast to the Great Lakes to the Southwest.

The Butt-Holdsworth Memorial Library will host a presentation titled “All About Milkweed” at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, April 12.