Native / Warm season
Common Milkweed
Monarch host plant and nectar source in meadows or large pollinator beds.
Not a culinary recommendation; grown for habitat value.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 365
- Germination temperature
- 55-75F
- Seed depth
- 0.25 inches
- Spacing
- 24 inches
- Row spacing
- 36 inches
- Start method
- Direct sow
Frost-date timing
- Direct sow
- 14 days before last frost
- Fall planting
- 10 weeks before first frost
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Low to moderate water after establishment.
- Soil
- Average to sandy soil; spreads by rhizomes.
- Watch
- Spreading habit can overwhelm small formal beds.
- native
- monarch-host
- pollinators
- perennial
Browse context
- Native Catalog Category collection
- Milkweed Family Rotation and family context
- Warm Season Seeds Season collection
- Direct Sow Seeds Start-method collection
- High Pollinator Value Seeds Practical trait collection
- Fall-Planting Seeds Practical trait collection
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Source: Penn State plant factsheets