Butterfly Weed Purple. Also known as asclepias tuberosa orange milkweed pleurisy root and yellow milkweed the plant can grow to be anywhere from one to two feet tall and is characterized by glossy green leaves and clusters of bright orange to yellow blooms that are rich with nectar and. Purple green blue glaucous white variegated.
The flowers are a great source of nectar for butterflies hummingbirds bees and other beneficial insects. Closeup of a six spot burnet butterfly zygaena filipendulae thistle plant with spine tipped winged stems and leaves pink purple flower head with a butterfly on it. I was wondering if they would be a good.
The butterfly weed flower or asclepias tuberose is a species that serves both as a food source for monarch butterflies and as a host plant for them to lay their eggs when they hatch the larvae eat the foliage that contains a milky substance called cardiac glycoside which is pretty much poison for any vertebrate.
Butterfly weed asclepias tuberosa other names. Closeup of a six spot burnet butterfly zygaena filipendulae thistle plant with spine tipped winged stems and leaves pink purple flower head with a butterfly on it. Purple green blue glaucous white variegated. Butterfly weed chieger flower flux root indian paintbrush indian potato orange root pleurisy root swallow root tuber root white root wind root windward root.