Find Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa) in Fayetteville Springdale Rogers Bentonville AR Arkansas AR at Westwood Gardens

A virtually hassle-free perennial, offering three months of tangerine orange blooms (occasionally red or yellow) from early to late summer. Deadheading the flowers will stimulate another bloom cycle about a month after the first one. The flowers, which are heavily laden with nectar and pollen, are particularly attractive to hummingbirds, butterflies, bees, and other beneficial insects.

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

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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…

Asclepias -- a common weed but a worthy addition to the ornamental garden!

Butterfly. Weed (Asclepias tuberosa), a 05 x 1m high tuberous-rooted, summer-flowering woody perennial from the eastern and central United States. It is one of the preferred milkweed food plants of the Monarch. Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) . asclepias-2371htm'>Asclepias. Order: Gentianales, Family: Apocynaceae

In my native gardens. Plant is native to MN