A Tuberosa Butterfly Weed. 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 it is also a larval food plant of the queen and monarch butterflies as well as the dogbane tiger moth milkweed tussock moth and. Silky scarlet is a tropical species that is a perennial in frost free regions and an annual in regions that.
Sitting atop upright flowering stems clad with stiff lance shaped leaves the colorful umbels 2 5 inches across 5 12 cm are followed by attractive seed pods in fall. The flower color ranges from a strong red orange through orange and toward a milder yellow orange. This plant grows throughout north america in dry sunny locations.
Silky scarlet is a tropical species that is a perennial in frost free regions and an annual in regions that.
Silky deep red butterfly weed bears flowers with yellow orange crowns and deep red orange corellas for a lovely two toned bloom. To learn how to grow it germinate seed and other facts read on. Butterfly weed asclepias tuberosa is a showy orange flowering native perennial flower. Silky deep red butterfly weed bears flowers with yellow orange crowns and deep red orange corellas for a lovely two toned bloom.
