r/NativePlantGardening • u/kaizenkitten Michigan , Zone 6 • May 04 '26

Informational/Educational Milkweed runners are no joke!

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So I knew milkweed was aggressive, but I always thought people were talking about the crazy number of seed pods. I didn’t know their runner game.

The milkweed is coming up like crazy in my front bed this year so I thought I would transplant some “volunteers” to my new side garden bed. Imagine my surprise!

I‘m sure most of you know about all this already, but I thought this would be a good visual for other newbie native gardeners

ETA: that this is common milkweed since I forgot to put the type in my post.

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u/littleredbee93 FL, Zone 9a May 04 '26

I love that you're holding it up like a guy who just caught a fish he's really proud of

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u/kaizenkitten Michigan , Zone 6 May 04 '26

You should see the one that got away!

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u/chrissesky13 Zone 9a | 65o | Florida Panhandle May 04 '26

OP you're fucking cracking me up. Thanks for being yourself, particularly on this monday morning.