2024年8月13日 · Butterfly weed is a milkweed plant that attracts butterflies to the garden with its clusters of bright orange-to-yellow blooms rich with nectar and pollen. This clump-forming perennial grows two feet tall from tuberous roots with glossy green, lance-shaped leaves.

Butterfly Weed is a showy perennial flower native to Eastern North America. Scientifically known as Asclepias Tuberosa, it will grow to about 2′ tall by 1-1/2′ wide, and bloom bright orange flowers for up to two months. As a milkweed, it serves as a host for Monarch Butterflies, & attracts numerous other pollinators.

Asclepias tuberosa, commonly known as butterfly weed, is a species of milkweed native to eastern and southwestern North America. [2] 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. [3]

2024年8月1日 · Butterfly weed is a late spring plant that tends to bloom at the peak of the summer. It thrives best in the temperate climates of zones 3 through 9 but needs the cold stratification period of winter to prepare its seeds for spring germination.

2021年4月19日 · Butterfly weed plants are milkweed cousins with tall, clumping perennials that reach heights of 12 to 36 inches (31-91 cm.). The blooms appear atop fuzzy, green stems, which are adorned by attractive, lance-shaped leaves.

2025年1月18日 · First off, Butterfly Weed is a type of milkweed, which is the host plant for Monarch butterflies. Secondly, Butterfly Weed is Cheeto-colored bright orange—a rare flower color! You can plant seeds in the spring and have flowers in …

Butterfly weed grows commonly in dry open habitats and is very common in the prairies and grasslands of the Midwest and Great Plains. This beautiful native wildflower is found from Maine to South Dakota to the desert southwest to Florida.

Butterfly weed performs best in full sun locations but can adapt to some shade, as long as it receives at least six hours of direct sunlight per day. Butterfly weed is adapted to less-than-ideal soil conditions, and is well-suited to clay, dry, and even rocky soil and drought conditions.

Butterfly weeds are medium-sized plants that get bushier as they grow older. They form clumps of upright stalks with narrow pointed leaves topped by 2 - 4 inch-diameter clusters of orange or yellow flowers. It blooms from April to September. This common urban plant grows to a …

2023年11月20日 · Butterfly Weed, or Asclepias tuberosa, is probably the native milkweed that is most commonly grown by gardeners. It is prized for its large, flat-topped clusters of bright-orange flowers. The flower clusters, 2 to 5 inches across, are at the top of the flowering stem.