There's much more to milkweed plants than you know. Discover fascinating milkweed facts about this butterfly garden staple.

Worried about common milkweed taking over your garden? Swamp milkweed, or red milkweed, is less aggressive but good for ...

the ability to digest milkweed toxins and become poisonous to predators. Making just three genetic changes turned regular fruit flies into “monarch flies,” able to withstand plant toxins and ...

Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) and some other insects deter predators such as frogs or birds through eating milkweed, which contains the toxin ouabain. Resistance to ouabain has evolved many ...