Native Milkweed Plant. Bright orange flat topped flower clusters june through july. In addition to supporting the monarch butterfly many other creatures use milkweed in their day to day life.
Meet twelve of the most ornamental milkweeds native to different parts of the country. Common milkweed asclepias syriaca is a native herbaceous perennial whose main virtue is its appeal to butterflies especially the monarch which deposits its eggs on the milkweed when the caterpillars hatch they feed on the leaves of milkweed. Plants bloom for many weeks.
Host plant for the monarch butterfly and a great nectar source for many other butterflies and pollinators part.
Common milkweed asclepias syriaca is a native herbaceous perennial whose main virtue is its appeal to butterflies especially the monarch which deposits its eggs on the milkweed when the caterpillars hatch they feed on the leaves of milkweed. Common milkweed asclepias syriaca is a native herbaceous perennial whose main virtue is its appeal to butterflies especially the monarch which deposits its eggs on the milkweed when the caterpillars hatch they feed on the leaves of milkweed. The most prevalent milkweed species at nurseries around houston is tropical milkweed asclepias curassavica. Asclepias syriaca commonly called common milkweed butterfly flower silkweed silky swallow wort and virginia silkweed is a species of flowering plant it is in the genus asclepias the milkweeds this species is native to southern canada and of much of the conterminous eastern u s east of the rocky mountains excluding the drier parts of the prairies.