Red And Yellow Milkweed. 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. It produces bunches of orange yellow and red tubular blooms for months.
Red butterflies milkweed asclepias curassavica red butterflies sku 2191. Some of the leaves are yellow with little spots on them. 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.
Clusters of attractive buds open to bright scarlet red and yellow flowers.
Sometimes it is labeled butterfly weed or simply milkweed. 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. A half millimeter spider mite eats up young milkweed foliage. It is small enough to see the harmful insect with the naked eye.