Asclepias tuberosa, Orange Butterfly Weed | High Country Gardens

Butterfly Weed Seeds, Asclepias tuberosa | High Country Gardens

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Learn about collecting Asclepias seeds from horticulturist Sylvia Schmeichel. Video description: horticulturist collecting Asclepias tuberosa pods, removing the floss to get the small brown seeds. #SmithsonianGardens #SeedCollecting #SeedSaving #Horticulture #PublicGardens | Smithsonian Gardens

Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) is one of the most iconic native plants in Virginia, and that's for good reason! It’s one of several milkweed varieties that serve as the SOLE HOST PLANTS for Monarch butterfly caterpillars and red milkweed beetles (Tetraopes tetrophthalmus), both of whom feed on the leaves of the plant🐛 Thankfully, red milkweed beetles are herbivores that eat only milkweed, and pose no threat to monarchs or their eggs/larvae, so you do not need to worry about removing them f

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Asclepias tuberosa (Butterfly-weed)

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Prairie Gold Butterfly Weed, Asclepias tuberosa | High Country Gardens