Asclepias 'Syriaca'

Asclepias

How to grow Asclepias 'Syriaca'

  • Full Sun

  • Low

Try to plant in a location that enjoys full sun and remember to apply water fairly sparingly.

Growing Syriaca from seed

Transplanting Syriaca

Harvesting Syriaca

Syriaca folklore & trivia

During WWII the silky part attached to the seeds was used for life jackets.234 Milkweed is more buoyant then cork by 5 or 6 fold.234

Other Names for Asclepias 'Syriaca'

Common milkweed, silkweed

Footnotes

1 The Old Farmers Almanac.com

2 Native Plant Society of Texas

3 Washington Post

4 “Your Country’s Armed Services Need Milkweed Floss: How You Can Help” :https://archive.org/stream/YourCountrysArmedServicesNeedMilkweedFlossHowYouCanHelp/YourCountrysArmedServicesNeedMilkweedFlossHowYouCanHelp_djvu.txt