Growing Butterfly Weed From Seed. Butterfly weed grows easily but prefers a location with full sun. It goes well with many other perennials and is especially suited for wildflower meadows native pollinator gardens borders rock gardens and mass plantings.
Butterfly weed asclepias tuberosa is a showy orange flowering native perennial flower. The fruit of the butterfly weed plant is a narrow greyish green pod covered with hairs which ripens at the end of summer or the beginning of fall. Each pod contains hundreds of seeds.
Starting butterfly weed from seed in the fall is the best growing.
Butterfly weed grows easily but prefers a location with full sun. Starting butterfly weed from seed in the fall is the best growing. Butterfly weed asclepias tuberosa is a showy orange flowering native perennial flower. The fruit of the butterfly weed plant is a narrow greyish green pod covered with hairs which ripens at the end of summer or the beginning of fall.