How to Use milkweed in a Sentence

milkweed

noun

• 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
• Monarchs rely on one group of plants on which to lay their eggs: the milkweeds.
  — Molly Marquand, Good Housekeeping, 28 July 2016
• 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
• The orange and black bugs were likely swamp milkweed beetles.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 17 June 2017
• For full sun, Boritt said prairie blazing star, wild bergamot and native milkweeds are easy to grow.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Apr. 2024
• 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 loss of forests in Mexico and milkweed north of the border has proved devastating.
  — Mark Stevenson, Orange County Register, 9 Feb. 2017
• According to the instructions, milkweed should be planted in groups of at least six.
  — Bill Leukhardt, Courant Community, 12 May 2017
• The native species found in the Willamette Valley is Asclepsia speciosa or showy milkweed.
  — oregonlive, 7 Aug. 2022
• Monarch butterflies lay their eggs only on milkweed plants in late spring.
  — Mariyam Muhammad, The Enquirer, 9 July 2024
• 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
• The state also has about 30 native milkweed species, the only plant monarchs use to lay eggs and monarch caterpillars consume.
  — Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 12 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024