{"product_id":"woolly-pod-milkweed-seeds-asclepias-eriocarpa","title":"Woolly Pod Milkweed Seeds (Asclepias eriocarpa)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eOne of the earliest emerging western milkweeds, woolly pod is possibly uniquely important to the western monarch butterfly population – likely providing one of the first ovipositing opportunities as monarchs migrate inland from California’s coastal overwintering sites.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eWoolly pod milkweed occurs across most of California (and Baja), but is partial to open, rocky, dry, sunny slopes. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eAmong milkweeds (all of which are beautiful plants), this is a notably attractive species – featuring pleasingly robust, silver-blue-green wrinkled leaves and often contorted stems, all of which is covered \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003ewith fuzzy, fine, soft hairs. The huge, fragrant white-pink-yellow umbels are a beacon to pollinators: bumble bees, magnificent Xylocopa carpenter bees – in metallic indigo and gleaming copper – fantastic big solitary hunting wasps seemingly animated by an electrical charge – and all manner of butterflies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eAdditionally – and specifically notable for monarchs, woolly pod milkweed is considered to be particularly high in protective cardenolides, reducing the palatability of monarchs to potential predators. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eApproximately 50 seeds (1.1 grams).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Northwest Meadowscapes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50346246897910,"sku":null,"price":14.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1274\/1723\/files\/woolly-pod-milkweed-seeds-asclepias-eriocarpa-5503733.jpg?v=1775503510","url":"https:\/\/northwestmeadowscapes.com\/products\/woolly-pod-milkweed-seeds-asclepias-eriocarpa","provider":"Northwest Meadowscapes","version":"1.0","type":"link"}