Common Milkweed – Organic
4.49$
3.82$
This beautiful native herbaceous plant plays a leading ecological role by attracting numerous insects and pollinating animals, but also predatory and parasitoid insects that are very useful in the garden. It is also essential to the survival of monarch butterflies. For some time, it has been cultivated for its silk used as stuffing for comforters and pillows or transformed into warm, moisture-repelling clothing, thermal and acoustic insulators and absorbent material after oil spills.
However, we forget that milkweed also served as food and a medicinal plant for First Nations peoples, as well as a material for weaving and making rope.
In cooking, the young shoots, flower buds and fruits are edible once cooked. Cooking should be carried out in such a way that the toxin contained in all parts of the plant is neutralized. An information sheet on milkweed including ways to prepare it is available on the MAPAQ website.
A medicinal plant recognized and prized since Antiquity, it is named after the Greek god of medicine, Asclepius. Its virtues are numerous, but they are especially renowned for the treatment of respiratory conditions such as asthma and bronchitis.
Milkweed seed stratification is highly recommended; Simply soak the seeds in water at room temperature for 24 hours then sow the seeds in moist potting soil and expose the seedlings to a temperature of 4°C for 3-4 weeks.
Common milkweed reaches 1,5 m in height and spreads happily thanks to its seed, but also its very extensive roots and rhizomes which produce buds; it is important to find a place where it will not become a nuisance. It likes full sun and grows easily along roadsides or in fallow lands. Its pretty pink flower umbels give pods in August. As these pods dry, they release up to 150 seeds, each hanging on a silky thread.
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This beautiful native herbaceous plant plays a leading ecological role by attracting numerous insects and pollinating animals, but also predatory and parasitoid insects that are very useful in the garden. It is also essential to the survival of monarch butterflies. For some time, it has been cultivated for its silk used as stuffing for comforters and pillows or transformed into warm, moisture-repelling clothing, thermal and acoustic insulators and absorbent material after oil spills.
However, we forget that milkweed also served as food and a medicinal plant for First Nations peoples, as well as a material for weaving and making rope.
In cooking, the young shoots, flower buds and fruits are edible once cooked. Cooking should be carried out in such a way that the toxin contained in all parts of the plant is neutralized. An information sheet on milkweed including ways to prepare it is available on the MAPAQ website.
A medicinal plant recognized and prized since Antiquity, it is named after the Greek god of medicine, Asclepius. Its virtues are numerous, but they are especially renowned for the treatment of respiratory conditions such as asthma and bronchitis.
Milkweed seed stratification is highly recommended; Simply soak the seeds in water at room temperature for 24 hours then sow the seeds in moist potting soil and expose the seedlings to a temperature of 4°C for 3-4 weeks.
Common milkweed reaches 1,5 m in height and spreads happily thanks to its seed, but also its very extensive roots and rhizomes which produce buds; it is important to find a place where it will not become a nuisance. It likes full sun and grows easily along roadsides or in fallow lands. Its pretty pink flower umbels give pods in August. As these pods dry, they release up to 150 seeds, each hanging on a silky thread.
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