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I live in the Brighton Heights Neighborhood of the City of Pittsburgh PA and recently certified my yard as a wildlife habitat. please feel free to check out my Blog and I hope you enjoy it.When I first bought my property the house was in disrepair and the yard was nothing but dead grass over grown weeds and garbage. It is now a habitat that provides wildlife with the four basic requirements needed to thrive. These are food, clean water, cover from predators, and places to raise young. I have provided these in my small space and will continue to improve on these elements of my garden. I am also an artist and I get a lot of inspiration from my garden. I am fascinated with tiny houses and enjoy cooking and music. I have two adopted cats from a rescue, and I have a one eyed cat that was a stray and needed surgery so I took her in. They are all house cats so they do not tear up my wildlife habitat. They do enjoy sitting in the windows looking at the other animals that visit my yard.

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

List of Pennsylvania Native Milkweed

PENNSYLVANIA NATIVE MILKWEED SPECIES

Common Name                              Scientific Name

Butterfly weed                                Asclepias tuberosa
Clasping milkweed                         Asclepias amplexicaulis
Common milkweed                        Asclepias syriaca
Fourleaf milkweed                         Asclepias quadrifolia
Green comet milkweed                  Asclepias viridiflora
Poke milkweed                              Asclepias exaltata
Purple Milkweed                           Asclepias purpurascens
Red milkweed                                Asclepias ruba
Redring milkweed                          Asclepias variegata
Swamp milkweed                          Asclepias incarnata
Whorled milkweed                        Asclepias verticillata

 I only have three native milkweeds in my gardens but I might try to add more as time goes by.
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