This elegant plant has gained a long neglected respect in the movement to save Monarch Butterflies.
Milkweed is the only plant Monarchs lay their eggs onto, and it's crucial food for a young caterpillar. Though many butterflies, bees and insects find nourishment here.
Each stage of a Milkweed's life possesses a dynamic charm.
Standing chest high, the deep green leaves with a pink central vain are soft to the eye and touch. Flower buds appears as a mauve-pink bundle that later explodes into a ball of fragrant blooms. These waxy and regal orbs later transform into a pod. At the climax of the Harvest Season these pods burst open again, spilling a bright white silk. This fine silk literally take it's paper brown seed in flight. Transforming and liberating itself, much like a butterfly.
The Flower Essence of Milkweed assists in developing a healthy sense of ego.
It promotes self assurance and independence.
Much like a caterpillar left vulnerably on it's own, trusting it's ability to create a chrysalis, to radically transform, and take flight.