This is where the milkweed plant comes in. It's essential for monarchs because they only lay their eggs on milkweed, and the ...

Monarchs rely on milkweed as the sole host plant for their caterpillars, and without it, their populations struggle to thrive ...

I figured, let's get something a little different from the ubiquitous pumpkin and apple seeds, so we collected a few milkweed seed pods. These pods are about the size of small plantains ...

RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected the prostrate milkweed as endangered. Only 24 populations of the plant survive, in south Texas and northern Mexico, where ...