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Ask a Master Gardener: All about marvelous milkweed

SWAMP MILKWEED WITH its dusty pink flowers is a favorite food source for monarch butterflies, which feed on its nectar.  photos / Bonnie Kirn Donahue

Milkweed is a critically important plant for the monarch butterfly, which is threatened with extinction.

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