Asclepias Tuberosa Winter. It grows in u s. Overview asclepias tuberosa also referred to as butterfly weed or indian paintbrush orange milkweed is a species of milkweed native to eastern and southwestern america.
Butterfly weed is a perennial which means they go dormant each winter and bounce back in the spring. A plant that lives for more than two years. Butterfly weed asclepias tuberosa produces green foliage through spring and summer and clusters of small red orange or yellow flowers.
In general very little milkweed winter care is needed.
Overwhelmingly groups who are tasked with preservation of monarchs and monarch habitat. Is butterfly weed poisonous to humans dogs or cats. It grows in u s. 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.