There’s only one host plant for a monarch butterfly—milkweed! Choose native varieties for your area such as common milkweed, butterfly weed, swamp milkweed and showy milkweed. Create a monarch haven ...

A monarch butterfly is ready to emerge from its chrysalis in the Kalispell garden of one of landscaper Kathy Ross' clients last August. (Photo by Kathy Ross) A monarch butterfly caterpillar, about two ...