Asclepias tuberosa
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The Perennial Plant Association’s Perennial of the Year 2017 is butterflyweed, Asclepias tuberosa. This native milkweed offers brilliant orange flowers attractive to a wide range of butterflies and other insects and is a host for monarch butterfly caterpillars. Learn more about this tough, long-lived herbaceous perennial that makes a great addition to many types of gardens in this article…
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Found on prairies, open woods and hillsides; No milky latex; Medicinal purposes - Pleurisy and other medicinal benefits to early indigenous people and early ...
Botanical Name: Asclepias tuberosa. Other Common Names: Butterfly milkweed, butterfly weed, Canada root, chiggerflower, fluxroot, Indian paintbrush, Indian posy, orange milkweed, silkweed, silky swallow-wort, tuber root, yellow milkweed, white-root, windroot. Habitat: Butterfly weed or pleurisy root is native to North America and is found in Ontario, Canada and throughout the continental United States except for the Pacific Northwest. It is principally found in the Southwestern and…
Spain. Islas Canarias. Tenerife. Costa del Silencio. Asclepias curassavica, commonly known as tropical milkweed, is a flowering plant species of the milkweed genus, Asclepias.It is native to the American tropics[5] and has a pantropical distribution as an introduced species. Other common names include bloodflower or blood flower,cotton bush, hierba de la cucaracha, Mexican butterfly weed, redhead,[6] scarlet milkweed,and wild ipecacuanha. It is grown as an ornamental garden plant and as a…
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Bright orange wildflower, host to Monarch butterflies
