Milkweed Yellow Flowers. These perennials are known for their sweet smelling flowers and milky white liquid within its foliage. Golden yellow flower clusters cover the plant adding a lovely dimension to your summer garden.
While they are slow to emerge in the spring mark their spots to keep their spaces. Native to michigan and widely distributed throughout the united states butterfly weed is a vigorous milkweed variety that produces clusters of flowers that bloom from early summer until frost. It tends to be leggy with a typical clearance of 1 foot from the ground and should be underplanted with lower growing perennials.
Asclepias tuberosa the butterfly weed is a species of milkweed native to eastern and southwestern north america.
It tends to be leggy with a typical clearance of 1 foot from the ground and should be underplanted with lower growing perennials. Sitting atop upright flowering stems clad with stiff lance shaped leaves the colorful umbels are followed by attractive seed pods in the fall. Easily distinguished from other milkweed species by its large clusters of bright orange or orangey yellow flowers that bloom from late spring to early fall. 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.