Asclepias tuberosa - (Butterflyweed)
GARDEN SITE: ☀️. Average, Dry to Medium, Well-drained soil. Performs well in poor soils.
SIZE: ⬆2-3 ft. ↔ 1 -1 ½ ft.
FLOWERS: Orange-Yellow blooms June - August
WILDLIFE: Attracts Butterflies
LARVAL HOST TO: Monarch Butterfly, Grey Hairstreak, and Queen butterflies
ZONE: 3-9
DISTRIBUTION: AL , AR , AZ , CA , CO , CT , DC , DE , FL , GA , IA , IL , IN , KS , KY , LA , MA , MD , ME , MI , MN , MO , MS , NC , NE , NH , NJ , NM , NY , OH , OK , PA , RI , SC , SD , TN , TX , UT , VA , VT , WI , WV
One of our showiest native wildflowers with bright orange blooms. Great for butterfly gardens, meadows prairies, sunny borders and slopes. Plant it among other mid-sized perennials. Leave undisturbed once established. Deer resistant. Long lived perennial.
Larval host to the Monarch Butterfly!
“Asclepias” honors Aesculapius, the Greek god of medicine; tuberosa means bearing tubers and refers to this species' habit of growing shoots upward from horizontal underground stems.
GARDEN SITE: ☀️. Average, Dry to Medium, Well-drained soil. Performs well in poor soils.
SIZE: ⬆2-3 ft. ↔ 1 -1 ½ ft.
FLOWERS: Orange-Yellow blooms June - August
WILDLIFE: Attracts Butterflies
LARVAL HOST TO: Monarch Butterfly, Grey Hairstreak, and Queen butterflies
ZONE: 3-9
DISTRIBUTION: AL , AR , AZ , CA , CO , CT , DC , DE , FL , GA , IA , IL , IN , KS , KY , LA , MA , MD , ME , MI , MN , MO , MS , NC , NE , NH , NJ , NM , NY , OH , OK , PA , RI , SC , SD , TN , TX , UT , VA , VT , WI , WV
One of our showiest native wildflowers with bright orange blooms. Great for butterfly gardens, meadows prairies, sunny borders and slopes. Plant it among other mid-sized perennials. Leave undisturbed once established. Deer resistant. Long lived perennial.
Larval host to the Monarch Butterfly!
“Asclepias” honors Aesculapius, the Greek god of medicine; tuberosa means bearing tubers and refers to this species' habit of growing shoots upward from horizontal underground stems.
GARDEN SITE: ☀️. Average, Dry to Medium, Well-drained soil. Performs well in poor soils.
SIZE: ⬆2-3 ft. ↔ 1 -1 ½ ft.
FLOWERS: Orange-Yellow blooms June - August
WILDLIFE: Attracts Butterflies
LARVAL HOST TO: Monarch Butterfly, Grey Hairstreak, and Queen butterflies
ZONE: 3-9
DISTRIBUTION: AL , AR , AZ , CA , CO , CT , DC , DE , FL , GA , IA , IL , IN , KS , KY , LA , MA , MD , ME , MI , MN , MO , MS , NC , NE , NH , NJ , NM , NY , OH , OK , PA , RI , SC , SD , TN , TX , UT , VA , VT , WI , WV
One of our showiest native wildflowers with bright orange blooms. Great for butterfly gardens, meadows prairies, sunny borders and slopes. Plant it among other mid-sized perennials. Leave undisturbed once established. Deer resistant. Long lived perennial.
Larval host to the Monarch Butterfly!
“Asclepias” honors Aesculapius, the Greek god of medicine; tuberosa means bearing tubers and refers to this species' habit of growing shoots upward from horizontal underground stems.
