Milkweed Seed (wild) to Save the Monarchs! and a trade list.

[robin282]

I was very fortunate to get my hands on Milkweed seed. They grow at the horse farm I work at, and I collected all the seed I could find.

Spreading them far and wide would be great for the Monarchs since it is the only plants for their caterpillar stage from what I understand.

Anyone interested in a trade for some?

I have also raised/collected the following seed this year. While much of it will go to Need 4 Seed, I have enough to do some trading. I hope to get seed of food plants, so that I can then put them back into N4S.

So far, I have saved/collected:
Rhubarb
Maine Wild Lupin
Bunch Berry--Cornus canadensis
BLACK Strain Maine Wild Blueberry--Vaccinium angustifolium
Dewberry--Rubus sp.
Black-Eyed Susan
India Yellow-Podded Pea
Shawblokers Blue-Podded and shelling Pea
Snow Pea
Sunflowers--Multi Colored
Lingonberries
Bristly Sarsparilla--Aralia hispida
BLUE Maine Wild Blueberry--Vaccinium angustifolium
Scarlet Runner Bean
Blush Romaine Lettuce
Black Oil Sunflower
Red Currant--Ribes rubrum
Rosa rugosa (pink & white)
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Soap Wort (double)
Bluebell-type flowers (need to ID)
Viburnum (need to ID)
Mallow
Marigold (small yellow-orange, and small golden yellow with dark orange around)

Read more: need4seed.freeforums.net/thread/188/robins-current-seed-collecting-2014#ixzz3HvLbOOPl

[flowerweaver]

Which milkweed? The monarchs are just passing through here now. I plan to start more milkweeds next spring for a butterfly garden I have in progress. I have/have access to seeds for many native Asclepias species, but I'm down in the southwest near Mexico, so I'm not sure our seeds would grow in each other's climates.

Asclepias asperula - Antelope Horns



Asclepias oenotheroides - Hierba de Zizotes



Cynanchum racemosum var unifarium - Tayalote Vine



Matelea reticulata - Pearlvine Milkweed

[robin282]

"Common Milkweed" is not so common now. I remember much more of it as a kid. Asclepias syriaca

[steev]

Hierba de Zizotes, what charming flowers!

Everything was more common when we were kids; declining ecosystem diversity is obvious to any but the willfully ignorant.

[flowerweaver]

I think we have really interesting milkweeds here, most of them unavailable in the trade, and under-appreciated except by the butterflies, of course!

[robin282]

I found our milkweed fascinating as a kid. I find it even more so now that I know more as an adult. Flowerweaver, you do have some interesting ones there!

[flowerweaver]

Thanks, robin282 I had started several hundred other milkweed seeds that I got from various sources in flats this spring, with the intention of planting them in my butterfly garden (the native ones exist all over the property). They were hardening off when the tornado hit and all were MIA afterwards. I don't know who's property they ended up on! The last time I tried to grow out that many our well went dry and they perished. But I will persist for the sake of the butterflies!