Redring Milkweed. This butterfly breeds all year long in florida south texas and southeastern california. Saw this variety of milkweed on another site for over 600.
Click on a place name to get a complete protected plant list for that location. Seed sourced in arkansas. Redring milkweed is not an important food plant for monarch butterfly danaus plexippus caterpillars although which appear in the spring and summer and may have one to three broods in the north and four to six broods in the south.
We do not have information on bloom period.
This butterfly breeds all year long in florida south texas and southeastern california. Strongly recommend direct sowing seed in the fall and letting nature germinate the seed in its own time. This plant has no children legal status. Flowers are followed by slender erect pod like green fruit ripening.