butterfly weed
Asclepias latin
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All except the butterfly weed have this rather special quality.

IF ever a plant was well named, it is butterfly weed.

Butterfly weed and its clan are rather lazy in spring.

You walk and wonder: Could that be a parterre of butterfly weed?

Most of the butterfly weeds known to cultivation have the bright orange flowers.

From a gardener's point of view, butterfly weed is easy enough to grow from seed.

Butterfly Weed grows from 0.3 to 0.9 meters tall (1-3 feet).

And you can't take people into your garden anymore and just point out the butterfly weed.

Or plant some, along with Queen Anne's lace and butterfly weed.

Uses: Butterfly weed does well in meadows and in wild gardens.

Then there is butterfly weed that blooms a bit later than the buddleias.

And throughout the journey, the butterfly weed provides them food and built-in protection.

Prairie flowers such as butterfly weed store water in their fleshy taproots.

Some have been named to guide the gardener: butterfly bush and butterfly weed.

"Butterfly weed is easy to grow from seed.

I called my local Department of Environmental Conservation office and was told that butterfly weed is not on the list.

The most widely known is the bright orange butterfly weed (A. tuberosa).

The land was full of cedars and wild butterfly weed, and a bike ride from the ocean.

It doesn't look especially good near the hot orange of marigolds, butterfly weed or tiger lilies, but then nothing does.

Butterfly Weed has many common names.

The most commonly available butterfly weed has orange or yellow flowers, but there are white- and pink-flowered varieties as well.

Butterfly weed is easily propagated in water.

Included were big bluestem, Indian grass, butterfly weed and rattlesnake master.

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Once a butterfly weed develops a good root system, it becomes a long-lived, drought-resistant plant.

I would like to have many more clump-forming Asclepias species in my garden but they are difficult to find.

Majority of the plants in the genus Asclepias are somewhat toxic.

You have to call it Asclepias tuberosa so everyone will know what you're talking about.

All three of these Asclepias species produce unusual, canoe-shaped seedpods.

The name comes from the type genus Asclepias (milkweeds).

It is in the genus Asclepias, making it a type of milkweed.

But unlike many Asclepias species, common milkweed spreads aggressively.

It feeds on plants of the genus Asclepias.

Purple milkweed is a common name of two plants in the genus Asclepias:

Both the red and swamp types favor moist ground, as opposed to the arid conditions preferred by other Asclepias.

Asclepias curassavica is excellent in butterfly gardens or as a cut flower.

There are many different insects that use the nectar from "Asclepias sullivantii".

Some species formerly classified under the Asclepias genus include:

Monarchs can live a life of two to eight weeks in a garden having their host 'Asclepias' plants and sufficient flowers for nectar.

Asclepias speciosa is a specific Monarch butterfly food and habitat plant.

The species is closely related to Asclepias physocarpa.

Asclepias species produce their seeds in follicles.

But I was uncertain about taking any from the butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa).

Asclepias tuberosa is a species of milkweed native to eastern North America.

It is also destructive to the rare and threatened milkweed species Asclepias meadii.

Asclepias involucrata (common name dwarf milkweed), is a plant found in the American southwest.

This plant will readily hybridize with Asclepias fruticosa creating intermediate forms.

Asclepias tuberosa, a trendy perennial flower, is sold as "butterfly weed."

The clan of Asclepias, part of the Asclepiadaceae family.

Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa) is a species of milkweed plant.