Orange milkweed

Planting milkweed this year? If your goal is to provide habitat for monarch butterflies, you’ll want to choose milkweed varieties that are native to your region – and suitable for your site conditions. Milkweed is essential to the monarch lifecycle, serving as a host plant for monarch eggs and a food source for the resulting

Many gardeners plant milkweed alone in patches, but there are many companion plants that grow well with milkweed and will attract and support more monarchs.

It is incredibly important to grow enough milkweed to support and grow monarch populations. Milkweed comes in many varieties, and...

Found on prairies, open woods and hillsides; No milky latex; Medicinal purposes - Pleurisy and other medicinal benefits to early indigenous people and early ...

Asclepias tuberosa - Butterfly milkweed.

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Lens: EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM A member of the milkweed family, and a native wildflower in many areas of North America, the bright orange flowers of butterfly weed attract a variety of butterflies, pollinating insects, and hummingbirds. It is an important larval host for Monarch butterflies. This one is now blooming in one of my pollinator gardens.

For a low-maintenance, wildlife-friendly landscape, use native plants adapted to the climate and range of soils in the Northeast

There are many types of milkweed found in Connecticut and one of them is called Butterfly Weed. It is one of the most attractive flowers of the milkweed species and is especially attractive to bees and butterflies. Native Americans found many uses for this beautiful plant medicinally as well as ceremonially. About Butterfly Weed This is the most famous member of the milkweed family because of its' nectar and pollen-rich flowers that attract hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees. It grows in…