Growing milkweed?

[BSK]

It's amazing how they'll float. They show everything the air is doing. Incredible advantage for a hunter.

Exactly.

 

[Tn_Va_Hunter]

I have never found any around my area in Va. but sounds like i need to try and plant some

 

[megalomaniac]

That is interesting that multiple people have stated that it is generally found in low lying areas. I have it on hill sides far from the creek bottom. I am starting to think i may have misidentified what it is.

I'm close to you...

The purple flowered milkweed will grow great in dry soils in our area. The orange flowered one the Monarchs prefer needs more moisture. I have some on dry rocky hillsides, but most of the orange flowering plant prefers the flatter ground.

 

[Huntaholic]

Ok, but WHY? Other than needing the floaters, what is the HUGE benefit with milkweed? Other than monarch butterflies, what else gets and use from them?
Im asking because Ive got some that grow in a powerline cut behind my house that I keep mowed and milkweeds will take it over if I let them.