Asclepias involucrata

Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

Aug 04 2024 | 00:04:18

00:00 / 00:04:18

Show Notes

A sentimental episode written and recorded amidst the cluttered space that I call books and bones. Thank goodness for a milkweed plant to help me snap out of it! Asclepias involucrata has a wide range in the southwestern US and into Mexico. I don’t remember ever seeing it offered in a nursery , but then I don’t remember a lot of stuff. But hey, it is a perennial with a woody tap root, so I’m thinking It would be a fun addition to a wildflower pollinator garden. Queen butterflies and their following caterpillars certainly thought it was a nice addition…

Other Episodes

Episode 0

April 27, 2021 • 00:04:56

Camping With Bighorns

I have two books on my shelf about desert bighorns. The Desert Bighorn, It’s Life History, Ecology and Management. Edited by Gale Monson and...

Episode 0

September 22, 2021 • 00:05:05

Stinging Serpent

I like the phrase in Arizona Flora about the Loasa family Loasaceae ; it is “remarkable for the diversity and peculiar structure of the...

Episode

May 19, 2014 •

Calylophus, Nama and Eupatorium

Petey feels the need to jabber about three different wildflowers. This better be interesting. We did not have good winter rains and what wildflowers...