Asclepias tuberosa Seeds

Butterfly Weed

If you get just one plant to encourage more butterflies in your garden this is the one. Butterfly weed serves every life stage of the butterfly. A one-stop shop. Butterfly-filled, orange flowers bloom June-August giving a long display. Flowers are followed by decorative seed pods.

Full sun. Good drainage. 1-2’ high and wide. Good cut flower and dried seedpods. Zones 4-9.