Green Milkweed
Asclepias viridiflora
Monarch caterpillars feed on its leaves. It grows wild in 58 of Virginia’s 133 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to average soil
- Size
- 1.5 ft to 2 ft tall, 1.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Yellow and pink
- Roots
- A taproot
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seed
What it feeds
- Butterflies
- Host plant for the Monarch
- Caterpillars
- 13 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
Hairy Beard Tongue
Eastern Flowering Spurge
Pennsylvania SedgeFacts from the Quercus record for Asclepias viridiflora.