I have Asclepias asperula -- Antelope Horns & Asclepias viridis -- Green Milkweed & am like Nel...would like bigger trades or if you want, you could send me a SASBE for them. I am specifically looking for butterfly host plants & native Wildflowers. Check out my list Here is a link that might be useful: Imabirdnut's Trade List

I have tons of tropical milkweed seed (Asclepias curassavica), the red flowered. I behaves as a perennial here in North Texas. If you would send me an SASE, I'll send you a bunch. Do you have any butterfly host plant seeds to swap? Just email me & I'll send you my address.

Hello everyone. I am trying to find Asclepias variegata seeds. I have Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed, Minnesota genotype) 2014 seeds to trade for them.

I get lots of volunteer seedlings scattered all around the plants, too, Myrtle, but mine also come back from right under the root. Actually, I can see where the new growth is growing out of the root, because some of the roots are right on the top of the soil. I was surprised that mine came back this past spring, since we had a long cold spell in January, with several nights of below freezing weather, but they did come back. Hattiesburg's Lowe's has A. curassavica for sale now, so I bought 6 of them, pretty big plants, and the flowers are red and yellow, my favorite - the Lowe's in nearby Petal has the ones with all yellow flowers. I bought a lot of them to plant in my new butterfly host/nectar plant bed. Some people warn against A. curassavica, because it can keep monarch infections going if the leaves don't die back, but the tops of mine ALWAYS die back, they always start fresh the next spring just like native MWs do. Next time I go to Wiggins, I'm going to look and see if the A. lanceolata that grow roadside has any seed pods. Probably not, since the mowers always get them before they have time to mature. I've never found eggs or cats on this type of MW, but I used the leaves to finish feeding monarch cats one year when I had more cats than MW leaves in my garden - it worked well, brought them to adulthood! A. lanceolata - Speaking of volunteer seedlings, the one A. curassavica in my garden in Hattiesburg was a volunteer I dug up out of my old garden and planted here - it's tall! Sherry