- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
Published on: October 10, 2022
Fact: Milkweed is the host plant of the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus.
Fact: Without milkweed, no monarchs.
Yet a milkweed species that's been thriving in California for more than a century is getting a bad rap. The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), apparently influenced by conservation groups, has categorized Asclepias curassavica, commonly known as tropical milkweed, as "a noxious weed."
That means, among other things, that county agricultural commissioners can ban the sale of tropical milkweed in nurseries. Indeed, several counties, including Marin, Contra Costa, San Mateo and Ventura, already...
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