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South Carolina
Green Milkweed in flower
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Green Milkweed

Asclepias viridiflora

Monarch caterpillars feed on its leaves. It grows wild in 17 of South Carolina’s 46 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
Add to a bedPlan it in a pot

At its grown size

Green Milkweed, drawn in a bed

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

Cream Wild Indigo2.2 ft tallEastern Flowering Spurge2.5 ft tallIndian Blanket-flower1.5 ft tallPennsylvania Sedge5 in tallFringed Bluestar2.5 ft tall

Facts from the Quercus record for Asclepias viridiflora.