Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
White flowers from July into September, worked by brown-belted bumble bees and eastern carpenter bees. Monarch caterpillars feed on its leaves. It grows wild in 40 of North Carolina’s 100 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 1.8 ft to 2.5 ft tall, 1.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- White, Jul to Sep
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners; reach 4 ft down in open ground
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seed
What it feeds
- Butterflies
- Host plant for the Monarch
- Caterpillars
- 14 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 59 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Brown-belted bumble bee (Bombus griseocollis), Eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica), Southern plains bumble bee (Bombus fraternus), Giant resin bee (Megachile sculpturalis)
Grows well with
New Jersey Tea
Bluestem Goldenrod
Robin's-plantain
Calico Aster
Black Huckleberry
Small's Ragwort
Narrowleaf Sundrops
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Facts from the Quercus record for Asclepias verticillata.