Orange Butterfly Weed Plant. Sometimes called pleurisy root butterfly weed asclepias tuberosa is a perennial wildflower grown for its showy reddish orange flower clusters and textured. To learn how to grow it germinate seed and other facts read on.
Perennial plant association plant of the year 2017. Butterfly weed asclepias tuberosa is a native plant that comes from the prairie regions of the midwestern united states it goes by several other names including orange milkweed pleurisy root and indian paintbrush. 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.
This special selection of the wildflower orange butterfly weed is unique in its ability to grow in heavier soils including clay.
Butterfly weed asclepias tuberosa also called pleurisy root butterfly milkweed or orange milkweed north american plant of the dogbane family apocynaceae a stout rough haired perennial with long roots. Asclepias tuberosa the butterfly weed is a species of milkweed native to eastern and southwestern north america. Sometimes called pleurisy root butterfly weed asclepias tuberosa is a perennial wildflower grown for its showy reddish orange flower clusters and textured. To learn how to grow it germinate seed and other facts read on.
