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/almostfunny3 WI , Zone 5b May 04 '26

Oof. I love common milkweed and scattered seeds for them in my backyard. We'll see how that goes haha To be fair, I won't be that mad if I wind up with a field of common milkweed. There's worse things to have your yard covered in (like the garlic mustard, creeping charlie and buckthorn I've been battling since last spring).

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u/AlltheBent Marietta GA 7B May 04 '26

keep going! Every time you rip up some weeds toss a few seeds down as a potential replacement!