Milkweed question

[Birdsong 82]

I bought a milkweed plant at the nursery to a to the raised bed with the bee balm. As it started to take to the new soil and start to grow, I noticed part of the plant doesn’t look like the other. I can see where the milkweed is, but what’s the other one growing off of it?

(and yes. I realize they look a little sad. Need a watering but worked a 14 hour shift last night, so crashed when I got home)

 

[50-45-1]

I'm not sure what it is but its deffinatly not milkweed.
I brought a mint plant from the greenhouse years ago and in the pot must have been something else because stinging nettle grew in the sme place.
I am still battling sting nettle 25 years later!

 

[Birdsong 82]

The back part of it I can tell is milkweed, but that one in the front yeah even though I’ve never grow milkweed I know what it looks like and you’re correct that didn’t look anything like it but I just wanted to check. But I wonder what it is. I don’t want to run into the problem you did it same time maybe something good. I have to look more into what it is.

 

[Birdsong 82]

Thought about purposely planting, stinging nettle, one time to keep the critters out of my garden but then I realized that would keep me out of my garden as well

I'm not sure what it is but its deffinatly not milkweed.
I brought a mint plant from the greenhouse years ago and in the pot must have been something else because stinging nettle grew in the sme place.
I am still battling sting nettle 25 years later!

 

[50-45-1]

A nice garden plant that will cut down on bugs and pests around your garden is Wormwood.
It's a nice plant to look at and it smells like balm or eucalyptus to me.
It will spread tho. I now have it in my orchard and lawn.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Google Lens says it's Erechtites but I don't know anything about it, you'll have to research it.

 

[Debbie292d]

Oh dear, that's not milkweed. Milkweed has fuzzy leaves and will make pods in the fall. If you break a leaf or the stem it bleeds white stuff, thus the name milkweed. Monarch butterflies love it!

I'd take that back and ask to speak to someone who knows what milkweed is. Here we just dug some of that up out of the ditches and planted it in our orchard.