Milkweed

This plant excretes a milky sap and is a host plant for Monarch Butterflies. It consists of hollow stalks that are hairy and unbranching. It is a perennial plant that blooms in the spring and summer. It has a fruit of large, green, hairy, pods filled with 200 + seeds that have little tufts of fuzz attached to them. My picture is from the fall when the Milkweed has the fruit ready to spread seeds (Common).