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- Hi! Thanks for checking out our blog. We are a husband and wife duo with four rescued very independent cats - Bounder, Bobcat, Flora and Alvin. We live in Central Ohio in an hundred+ year old house. Self sufficiency is important to us and is something you will see take greater emphasis in this blog over time! We are interested in so many things: nature, hiking, craft, thrift, cooking great food, growing food and plants, living simply, etc. Our blog will have little bits of all these things so check back often.
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Common Milkweed
Why The Common Milkweed? Well many reasons: 1 - It's important! Milkweed is the only larval food for the Monarch Butterfly and Milkweed Tussock Moth and food for many other arthropods. 2 - It's common, yet possesses singular beauty and therefore represents all the beauty in and around us (right under our noses and on "this side of the fence") and the potential for that common beauty to be recognized, expressed and celebrated. 3 - It defies attempts at eradication (where it is considered a nuisance) and, in so doing, proves that the beauty contained in the common endures.
Milkweed Photo Collection
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Spider Antelope Horns, Asclepias asperula, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, TX
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), Fawn River Fen, The Nature Conservancy, LaGrange County, IN
Four-Leaf Milkweed (Asclepias quadrifolia), Clear Creek Nature Preserve, Ohio
Zizotes Milkweed, Asclepias oenotherioides, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico
Torrey Milkvine, Sarcostemma torreyi, Big Bend National Park, TX
Wavyleaf Climbing Milkweed, Sarcostemma crispum, Sitting Bull Springs, Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico
Butterfly Weed, Asclepias tuberosa, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, TX
Horsetail Milkweed, Asclepias subverticillata, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, NM
Swamp Milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, Swamp Angel Nature Preserve, The Nature Conservancy, Noble County, IN
Poke Milkweed, Asclepias exaltata, Douglas Woods Nature Preserve, The Nature Conservancy, DeKalb County, IN
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