Asclepias Red Butterfly. They are just some of the amazing variety of insects that use milkweed it s a. Tolerant of lean unimproved soils.
Noted for its very long blooming season asclepias curassavica tropical milkweed is an upright evergreen sub shrub boasting eye catching clusters of orange red flowers adorned with yellow hoods from early summer to fall. Asclepias curassavica commonly known as tropical milkweed is a flowering plant species of the milkweed genus asclepias. For flower arranging cut when blooms are 2 3 open.
Monrovia s red butterflies milkweed details and information.
Adorns sunny gardens with clusters of attractive red buds that open to bright orange flowers throughout summer. This hardy free flowering and well behaved plant needs little attention. It s september and i m noticing a lot of bugs on my butterflyweed. 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.