Asclepias viridiflora (Short Green Milkweed) Great Lakes Shoreline Warrior Plants Carex vulpinoidea (Brown Fox Sedge)

Carex vulpinoidea (Brown Fox Sedge) is a great plant for the rain garden because it is quite stunning and adapts to alternating levels of moisture

It Really Brings In The Butterflies

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Flower Time August

Riverbank Sedge is naturally found along rivers and floodplain seeps

Asclepias viridiflora (Short Green Milkweed) Great Lakes Shoreline Warrior Plants Carex vulpinoidea (Brown Fox Sedge)Monarch Butterflies are fully and exclusively dependent upon milkweeds for laying eggs and for larva food source and they can nectar. These plants were once so plentiful they were literally called weeds because they were problematic in agricultural fields. However, that's no longer the case with regular Glyphosate treatments to agricultural fields wiping out all "weeds". With fragmentation, global climate change, pollution, and other threats this is a