Annual Milkweed. It can be weedy in disturbed areas and is often found naturalized in waste places roadsides or fields. Scarlet milkweed is a popular annual milkweed.
It s a popular host plant and provides nectar for monarchs during the fall migration. Scarlet milkweed is a popular annual milkweed. Asclepias is a genus of herbaceous perennial flowering plants known as milkweeds named for their latex a milky substance containing cardiac glycosides termed cardenolides exuded where cells are damaged.
Hi joy tropical milkweed is a great annual choice for butterfly gardens.
Seed which must have a moist cold stratification period is started indoors in early spring for shorter summer zones or outside in warmer areas. It can be a prolific seed producer. Tropical milkweed asclepia curassavica this annual milkweed features showy red and yellow flowers and is preferred by egg laying female monarchs to the other milkweeds when given a choice. Hi joy tropical milkweed is a great annual choice for butterfly gardens.