Pink Milkweed. Check with your local native plant nurseries to find these. Milkweed flower color varies across species and can be white yellow green purple pink orange or red.
Milkweed often does not begin growing in northern gardens in time to be fully beneficial to butterflies. 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. Also known as pink milkweed this perennial has large blossoms composed of small rose purple flowers.
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.
Most species are toxic to humans and many other species primarily due to the presence of cardenolides although as with many such plants there are species that feed upon them i e. 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. Asclepias incarnata swamp milkweed is an erect clump forming perennial prized for its brilliant clusters of fragrant lilac pink flowers which bloom continuously for weeks from mid to late summer. This picture illustrates the corona with it s 5 hoods this is where nectar is stored and it s 5 petals which are usually bent backwards.