How to Grow and Care for Butterfly Weed - The Spruce
2024年8月13日 · Butterfly weed is a milkweed plant that attracts butterflies to the garden with its clusters of bright orange-to-yellow blooms rich with nectar and pollen. This clump-forming perennial grows two feet tall from tuberous roots with glossy green, lance-shaped leaves.
Butterfly Milkweed - US Forest Service
Butterfly weed grows commonly in dry open habitats and is very common in the prairies and grasslands of the Midwest and Great Plains. This beautiful native wildflower is found from Maine to South Dakota to the desert southwest to Florida.
Asclepias tuberosa - Wikipedia
Asclepias tuberosa, commonly known as butterfly weed, is a species of milkweed native to eastern and southwestern North America. [2] It is commonly known as butterfly weed because of the butterflies that are attracted to the plant by its color and its copious production of nectar. [3]
Asclepias Tuberosa (Butterfly Weed): Complete Guide On How To Plant ...
2020年8月25日 · Asclepias tuberosa is a coarse perennial plant consisting of many stems. The stems are straight and very hairy. The leaves are alternate and simple. Unlike other species of milkweed, tuberosa does not contain the characteristic thick milky sap but instead has a watery translucent sap.
Grow Milkweed, Save the Monarch Butterfly: A Step-by-Step …
Milkweed, a vital plant in the Asclepias genus, is renowned for its crucial role in supporting monarch butterflies by providing a breeding ground and food source for their larvae. Featuring clusters of intricate flowers ranging from pink to orange, this native plant thrives in diverse habitats, contributing to ecological health and biodiversity.
The Ultimate Milkweed Plant Growing Guide - Birds and Blooms
2024年1月9日 · Courtesy Jennifer Quam Monarch on a native butterfly weed plant. Milkweed, scientifically called Asclepias, is a huge genus, with more than 140 species throughout the Americas. It’s the only plant that hosts and feeds monarch caterpillars.
Butterfly Milkweed - Grow Native!
An excellent garden plant and a great addition to a native plant garden, naturalized area, prairie or wildflower meadow. An essential plant for attracting butterflies.
Butterfly Milkweed - Plant Addicts
It is the primary food plant for their larvae in the United States, and a nectar source for many other butterflies and bees. It grows in sun or part sun, offering showy flowers in hot summer party colors paired with medium green foliage. We said orange was kind of an average, because they can opt to be anywhere from yellow to red.
Asclepias tuberosa (Butterfly Milkweed, Butterfly Weed, …
The plant is a larval host plant for monarch (which appear in the spring and summer and may have one to three broods in the north and four to six broods in the south), gray hairstreak, queen, and milkweed tussock moth caterpillars.
Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) in the Milkweeds …
Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa) is a larval host plant for the Monarch and Queen butterflies, and is a key Monarch Way Station plant. According to NPIN, this plant also has special value to native, bumble, and honey bees, including leafcutter, green sweat, small carpenter, small resin, and sweat bees.