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Monarch
Keep Planting for Monarchs!
We never stop helping the monarch butterfly and our pollinator friends. With you as our partner, we can make a difference. All it takes is adding one or more native plants, especially milkweed, to your yard or patio. Check out the rest of this webpage for FREE resources an ideas including our NEW Sonoran Desert Pollinator Plant guide and a kids activity book.
Do you like to grow from seed and are a Phoenix resident? Email oepinfo@phoenix.gov to request a free Sonoran Desert monarch seed packet, while supplies last.
Follow @phxenvironment on social media for more monarch butterfly information throughout the year and other cool information from the City of Phoenix Office of Environmental Programs!
Download a FREE activity book in English or Spanish featuring our monarch ambassadors, Monica and Miguel. Have fun learning about monarch butterflies with a crayon in your hand!
NEW RELEASE: Download the new Sonoran Desert Pollinator Plant Guide for plant ideas along with tips for planting, maintenance, and watering.
Native plants are essential for the monarch butterfly and other pollinators, while also supporting our Sonoran Desert biodiversity and conserving water.
Want to level up? Combine this plant guide with the Green Stormwater Infrastructure Handbook for Residents (available for download at www.phoenix.gov/pdd/gsi) and learn how to use stormwater to help water your native plants!
Monarch Conservation
Phoenix joined the Mayor's Monarch Pledge in 2021 to help support their multi-generation, 3,000-mile-long migration. Keep your eyes peeled for these beautiful butterflies in the Fall through Spring in Phoenix. This species is struggling due to habitat loss, pesticide use, and climate change, but we can help.
Help the monarch butterfly Survive and Thrive!
Help the monarch butterfly Survive and Thrive!
Join us in the pledge by planting native milkweed and other native nectar plants to help the monarch butterfly and other pollinators! Let us know what you did on social media using #PlantingforMonarchs. Check out these top tips on how to help.
Planted a Polinator Garden? Consider registering a monarch waystation or pollinator pathway:
View the Mayor's 2021 Monarch Proclamation
Resources
- Participate in monarch butterfly mapping citizen science
- Participate in milkweed mapping citizen science
- Southwest Monarch Study
- Desert Botanical Garden - Monarch ButterFlies and Milkweeds
- Pollinator Conservation Resources: Southwest Region
- AZ Monarch Collaborative Native Plant Sources
- Xerces Society Managing for Monarchs in the west
- National Wildlife Federation
- Monarch Joint Venture
- Maricopa Native Seed Library
- Monarch Education Resources
Ideas or suggestions? Email oepinfo@phoenix.gov with “monarch" in the subject line
Photograph by William Vann