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Orange Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias Tuberosa) - 2.5 Quart Pot

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Orange Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias Tuberosa) – 2.5 Quart Pot

Original price was: $33.97.Current price is: $23.78.

SKU: D2LSC 6223960985 Category: NATIVE PLANTS

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Butterfly Milkweed

Asclepias tuberosa

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 3a-9b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Perennial

Height at Maturity: 24-36″

Width at Maturity: 12-24″+
Spacing: 18″ for mass plantings; 48″+ for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Upright, Mounding

Growth Rate: Fast

Flower Color: Orange

Flower Size: 2 to 3″ diameter clusters

Flowering Period: Late Spring through Summer

Flower Type: Single

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Deep Green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: No

Berry Color: No

Sun Needs: Full Sun to Part Shade

Water Needs: Average

Soil Type: Clay (amended), Loam, Sand (amended), Silt

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well-drained moist to Wet

Soil pH: 6.0 – 7.5 (Moderately Acid to Slightly Alkaline)

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention, Butterflies, Hummingbirds

Resistances: Disease, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbit

Description

If you love orange colored flowers, it doesn’t get any better than this easy-to-grow North American native perennial plant. Asclepias tuberosa, commonly known as Butterfly Weed or Butterfly Milkweed, produces abundant clusters of brilliant, true orange flowers over a long period from late spring through summer. The flowers are a nectar source for many types of butterflies and the leaves are a must-have food source for monarch butterfly larvae (caterpillars). Other pollinators and hummingbirds also visit the flowers. Following the flowers are seedpods that are valued for their use in dried flower arrangements. Likes a moist but well-drained to dry soil.

2017 Perennial Plant Association’s Plant of The Year

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 24 to 36 inches tall and 12 to 24 inches wide, Butterfly Weed is ideal for use as an accent, in grouping or mass plantings, or as a border along paths and walkways and perennial borders. It is ideal for use in moist areas of the landscape but will also tolerate drier sites. A fine addition to butterfly gardens, bog gardens, perennial gardens, cottage gardens, and purple theme gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 18 inches apart for mass plantings; 4 feet or more for space between plants

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Growing Preferences

Butterfly Weed is exceptionally easy to grow and care for. It grows best in a consistently moist of average fertility and full sun to part shade. Too much shade and flowering will be diminished. At least 4 hours of direct sunlight per day is suggested for best flowering. Plant with the top of the root ball even with ground level. Care and maintenance are minimal. Feed in spring with an organic plant food.

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