Common Milkweed Flowers. Milkweed flowers are food. Asclepias syriaca common milkweed is a rhizomatous perennial prized for its domed clusters of sweetly scented pinkish purple starry flowers which bloom from early to late summer.
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Common milkweed is especially common in areas with a history of disturbance and plants are abundant along roadways and drives where the grass isn t mown or sprayed. Common milkweed is a very common plant of meadows and prairies ranging from north dakota to maine and south to oklahoma and south carolina. Common milkweed plants grow to about 2 to 4 feet in height with a thin vertical growth habit.
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Numerous insects are attracted to the nectar laden flowers and it is not at all uncommon to see flies beetles ants bees wasps and butterflies on the flowers at the same time. Common milkweed flowers monarch caterpillar. Common milkweed is a very common plant of meadows and prairies ranging from north dakota to maine and south to oklahoma and south carolina. 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.
