{"id":41,"date":"2021-01-20T17:13:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T17:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/workinggardens.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2021-03-28T21:29:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T21:29:20","slug":"common-milkweed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/workinggardens.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/20\/common-milkweed\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Milkweed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"744\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/workinggardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSCN4491-744x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42\" srcset=\"http:\/\/workinggardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSCN4491-744x1024.jpeg 744w, http:\/\/workinggardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSCN4491-218x300.jpeg 218w, http:\/\/workinggardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSCN4491-768x1056.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/workinggardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSCN4491-1117x1536.jpeg 1117w, http:\/\/workinggardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSCN4491-1489x2048.jpeg 1489w, http:\/\/workinggardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSCN4491-1568x2157.jpeg 1568w, http:\/\/workinggardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSCN4491.jpeg 1635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Asclepias syriaca (Common Milkweed)<br><br>Once found in abundance in nearly every farm field, ditch, and disturbed site, Common Milkweed numbers have been in dramatic decline in recent years, due in part to suburban development and the increased efficiency of herbicides used in conjunction with herbicide-tolerant, genetically modified row crops. It spreads readily by seed and underground rhizomes and its taproot can withstand drought.\u00a0 Common Milkweed is one of the easiest and fastest to establish of the Milkweeds and planting more, even in small urban pockets, can provide personal satisfaction while helping to counter increasing threats to our Monarch butterfly population.\u00a0 Plant seeds late fall or early spring, no more than 1\/4&#8243; deep, on a fairly weed-free site.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asclepias syriaca (Common Milkweed) Once found in abundance in nearly every farm field, ditch, and disturbed site, Common Milkweed numbers have been in dramatic decline in recent years, due in part to suburban development and the increased efficiency of herbicides used in conjunction with herbicide-tolerant, genetically modified row crops. It spreads readily by seed and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/workinggardens.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/20\/common-milkweed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Common Milkweed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sun","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/workinggardens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/workinggardens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/workinggardens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/workinggardens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/workinggardens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/workinggardens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"http:\/\/workinggardens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/workinggardens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/workinggardens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/workinggardens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}