How to Use milkweed in a Sentence

milkweed

noun
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  • Monarchs seek refuge in the milkweed and lay their eggs on it.
    — Ryan Gillespie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Maybe the city could plant some milkweed and sunflowers around the art.
    — Lynn Horsley, kansascity, 4 May 2018
  • The plan calls for 1.3 billion new stems of milkweed in the central United States.
    — chicagotribune.com, 26 Sep. 2020
  • The Canadian Coast Guard tried milkweed garb and liked it.
    — Calvin Woodward, Fox News, 31 July 2018
  • Every spring, the Friends of the Monarch Trail hosts a milkweed plant sale for the community.
    — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2021
  • Don't be surprised when the milkweed's leaves start having holes.
    — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The red milkweed proved very popular with the monarchs.
    — Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Habitat loss across the United States is leading to a loss of the milkweed that monarchs need to survive.
    — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Dry milkweed pods look like cotton balls sitting on top of brown, straight stalks.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Students will also take home a milkweed plant to be used to start their own habitat.
    — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Monarchs lay their eggs on the leaves of milkweed plants, usually around March.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2021
  • One effort to reverse the trend is to promote more growth of native milkweed.
    — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 22 Sep. 2022
  • But since then, some scientific cracks have emerged in the milkweed case.
    — Gabriel Popkin, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
  • Visitors to the farm have found acres of milkweed and Monarch butterflies that depend on it for food.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 12 Dec. 2017
  • In South Dakota, milkweed plants are eaten by pronghorns.
    — Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
  • At the Theodore Payne Foundation nursery, families browsed the rows of narrow leaf milkweed and sage, herbal and earthy scents heavy in the hot air.
    — Jill Cowan, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Arrange milkweed and Chinese lantern stems in the container, packing them tight to hold them in place.
    — Penelope O'Sullivan, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The native species found in the Willamette Valley is Asclepsia speciosa or showy milkweed.
    — oregonlive, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Three biologists crouched among the milkweed plants, combing through the thin green leaves as if braiding hair.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 May 2022
  • Some gardeners live with the milkweed bugs, while others think a large presence of these deters the monarchs.
    — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Presentation on milkweeds and an update on the status of the monarch butterfly, followed by a tour of the Monarch Trail.
    — Elaine Rewolinski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 July 2018
  • The typical life cycle for the monarch begins with tiny eggs being deposited on the leaves of milkweed.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2021
  • When to sow milkweed seeds Milkweeds are also easy to propagate from seeds.
    — Anna Groves, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2018
  • Keene and fellow scientists captured monarch caterpillars in the wild and placed them on milkweed leaves in their lab.
    — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2020
  • What is your advice on planting milkweed in Lane County?
    — oregonlive, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Children were able to learn how planting native milkweed in the frontyard can act as a grocery store for monarchs.
    — Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Lane Turner/Globe Staff Black swallow-wort is a member of the milkweed family.
    — Lindsay Crudele, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
  • The milkweeds their larvae need to grow have been disappearing, because of the use of herbicides.
    — Siddhant Pusdekar, Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2024
  • Michelle Obama planted milkweed in a White House garden.
    — Gabriel Popkin, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
  • Add plants that support all stages of the pollinators’ lifecycle, such as various types of milkweed, coneflowers, bee balm, and cosmos to feed pollinators from summer through fall.
    — Peter Gorman, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2024

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