Milkweed Plant Asclepias Curassavica. Annual poisonous woody plant leaf. Noted for its very long blooming season asclepias curassavica tropical milkweed is an upright evergreen sub shrub boasting eye catching clusters of orange red flowers adorned with yellow hoods from early summer to fall.
Noted for its very long blooming season asclepias curassavica tropical milkweed is an upright evergreen sub shrub boasting eye catching clusters of orange red flowers adorned with yellow hoods from early summer to fall. Asclepias curassavica a type of milkweed commonly known as tropical milkweed bloodflower scarlet milkweed and silkweed it belongs to the apocynaceae dogbane family of plants. Annual usda hardiness zones.
Noted for its very long blooming season asclepias curassavica tropical milkweed is an upright evergreen sub shrub boasting eye catching clusters of orange red flowers adorned with yellow hoods from early summer to fall.
Unfortunately this well intentioned effort to restore habitat may actually be contributing to the decline of the monarch population. 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. Native milkweed plants pollinator host and nectar plants for the butterflies bees hummingbirds. The bloodflower or asclepias curassavica is a tropical milkweed that is native to the american tropics which includes the caribbean central america and south america.