Milkweed Butterfly Weed Wild Orange aka Butterfly Milkweed

Wild Orange Butterfly Weed Copper Harbor
Photo by Wild Juniper Nursery

Milkweed Butterfly Weed Wild Orange aka Butterfly Milkweed

Species: Asclepias Tuberosa Wild Orange
  • Everyone should be growing this perennial in their garden. It is native to our area, is beautiful, easy to grow and oh so beneficial to monarch butterflies and other pollinators.

 

  • Plants in the Asclepias family host female monarchs eggs, provide nectar, and food for adult monarchs

 

  • Bushy plant grows 18” H, needs full sun and sandy soil, can tolerate drought, very deer and rabbit resistant, will spread by rhizomes but controllable

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