Butterfly Weed Varieties. Butterfly weed is a must have plant for butterfly lovers. 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.
It prefers to be grown in full sun in dry to medium well drained soil. Gay butterflies mix is a family of species with plants in colors of red. In addition to butterfly weed numerous plants ranging from trees to annuals serve as hosts for caterpillars.
Butterfly weed plants spread by way of seeds which are released from large pods in early autumn.
In the garden butterfly weed looks great in wildflower meadows borders rock gardens or mass plantings. 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. In the garden butterfly weed looks great in wildflower meadows borders rock gardens or mass plantings. Butterfly milkweed butterfly weed.