Asclepias tuberosa

Find Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa) in Fayetteville Springdale Rogers Bentonville AR Arkansas AR at Westwood Gardens

A virtually hassle-free perennial, offering three months of tangerine orange blooms (occasionally red or yellow) from early to late summer. Deadheading the flowers will stimulate another bloom cycle about a month after the first one. The flowers, which are heavily laden with nectar and pollen, are particularly attractive to hummingbirds, butterflies, bees, and other beneficial insects.

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Found on prairies, open woods and hillsides; No milky latex; Medicinal purposes - Pleurisy and other medicinal benefits to early indigenous people and early ...

The Perennial Plant Association’s Perennial of the Year 2017 is butterflyweed, Asclepias tuberosa. This native milkweed offers brilliant orange flowers attractive to a wide range of butterflies and other insects and is a host for monarch butterfly caterpillars. Learn more about this tough, long-lived herbaceous perennial that makes a great addition to many types of gardens in this article…

Spain. Islas Canarias. Tenerife. Costa del Silencio. Asclepias curassavica, commonly known as tropical milkweed, is a flowering plant species of the milkweed genus, Asclepias.It is native to the American tropics[5] and has a pantropical distribution as an introduced species. Other common names include bloodflower or blood flower,cotton bush, hierba de la cucaracha, Mexican butterfly weed, redhead,[6] scarlet milkweed,and wild ipecacuanha. It is grown as an ornamental garden plant and as a…

Bright orange wildflower, host to Monarch butterflies

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