Milkweed or Dogbane? Unraveling the Mystery of Common Lookalikes🌿🌿

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  • Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024

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  • @BackyardEcology
    @BackyardEcology  Год назад

    🌿🌿🌿🌿 Learn about a pair of lookalike trees in this video: ruclips.net/video/UqDwaqpI-44/видео.html 🌿🌿🌿🌿

  • @GodBearOutoors
    @GodBearOutoors 2 месяца назад +1

    And what about those Butterfly Moths!?!?
    How amazing are they!?
    Talk about lookalikes!?!?
    Great video!
    Very informative and interesting to watch!
    You're a really good teacher!
    I think I can identify bogbane more confidently now!!
    I subscribed!
    ATB!✊

  • @davehendricks4824
    @davehendricks4824 Год назад +6

    70 years old and now I wonder how many times I saw hemp dogbane, (which I’d never heard of) and thought it was a type of milkweed?😮 And, I’d like to see grass lawns banned.👍 I moved out to the country 36 years ago and now the farmland is being turned into 5 and 10 acre lots of grass and plenty of non native species, which help nothing and no one.

    • @BackyardEcology
      @BackyardEcology  Год назад +4

      It does look almost the same at a glance. I know what you mean about the farms getting chopped up into "farmlets" that farm nothing and are mowing more grass than some golf courses.

  • @Thankful1998
    @Thankful1998 Месяц назад

    My milkweed is loved and deposited by the tussock moth caterpillars. Wish I would get some butterflies. I have seen 2 in the last 5 years.

    • @BackyardEcology
      @BackyardEcology  Месяц назад

      The butterflies will show up eventually. Had a monarch laying eggs on swamp milkweed this afternoon.

  • @wendyleslie6461
    @wendyleslie6461 5 месяцев назад

    Shagbark hickory and paw paw. 😁

  • @KatieCordrey
    @KatieCordrey Месяц назад

    I think we have wild dogbane, but it flowers pink, not white. It has reddish stems and otherwise conforms to the dogbane description in the video.
    How can I know for sure?

    • @BackyardEcology
      @BackyardEcology  Месяц назад +1

      Depending on where you live it could be spreading dogbane, Apocynum androsaemifolium. It has pinkish flowers.

    • @KatieCordrey
      @KatieCordrey Месяц назад

      @@BackyardEcology That's it! I live in the mid-Columbia River Gorge. It is all over our property. We mow it to keep it in check, but it's persistent and pops up in my vegetable garden and orchard with tedious regularity.

  • @benettemcneill984
    @benettemcneill984 4 месяца назад

    Is dog bane poisonous to touch like poison ivy?

  • @paintedtongue
    @paintedtongue Год назад

    Golden rod and from what I've heard a toxic look alike.

    • @BackyardEcology
      @BackyardEcology  Год назад +1

      I'm not sure what would be confused with goldenrod and be toxic, unless maybe ragwort - but it blooms in the spring and has more daisy like yellow flowers.

  • @TheOldMayfieldPlace
    @TheOldMayfieldPlace Год назад +1

    Would planting milkweed in a container in the garden be a good idea to help attract pollinators? Will milkweed grow well in a container?

    • @BackyardEcology
      @BackyardEcology  Год назад +3

      Milkweeds are not the best container plants, some do OK, but they are much happier in the ground. Common milkweed would not be a good choice in a garden, but either of the species in this video would work well as they don't spread quickly: ruclips.net/video/JH6UIIDWY4s/видео.html

    • @TheOldMayfieldPlace
      @TheOldMayfieldPlace Год назад +1

      @@BackyardEcology Thanks!

    • @BackyardEcology
      @BackyardEcology  Год назад +2

      @@TheOldMayfieldPlace Butterfly weed will do well in a large pot (something around 3 gallon size) and is probably the best choice for growing in a container.

    • @TheOldMayfieldPlace
      @TheOldMayfieldPlace Год назад +1

      @@BackyardEcology I have 20 gallon empty mineral tubs I grow herbs in. I may try one of these.

    • @BackyardEcology
      @BackyardEcology  Год назад +2

      @@TheOldMayfieldPlace That would work!