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These wildflowers are really bright! Brilliant orange clusters top rich, glossy leaves that climb alternately up the stems. It is a gracious host for the Monarch Butterfly caterpillars. You can be sure you'll add a blaze of color to your property with this one!
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One of our great North American native flowers with rich Indian and medicinal history. The brilliant orange blooms light up meadows dramatically, and of course, visits by butterflies are a bonus. This wildflower, also prized as a garden perennial, is not easy to grow, but once established, is a tough, dependable colormaker.
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These wildflowers are really bright! Brilliant orange clusters top rich, glossy leaves that climb alternately up the stems. It is a gracious host for the Monarch Butterfly caterpillars. You can be sure you'll add a blaze of color to your property with this one!
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Often known as Pleurisy Root, this plant has been used by many cultures for lung ailments and as a poultice for bruises, swellings and rheumatism. An important nectar plant for butterflies, whose cocoons can often be found on the plant in late summer. Brilliant orange flowers.
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Origin: US NativeOther Common Names: Pleurisy Root, Orange MilkweedDuration: PerennialBloom Time: SummerHeight: 24 to 36Spacing: 15 to 18Light: Full Sun to Part ShadeSoil Moisture: Medium to DryUSDA Zone: 4a-10bGermination: No pre-treatment needed. Soak seeds in hot water for 36 hours, then sow seeds on soil surface at 70F and water.Seeds Per Oz: 5000These wildflowers are really bright! Brilliant orange clusters top rich, glossy leaves that climb alternately up the stems. It is a gracious host...
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This is a perennial plant (zones 8-11; self-sowing annual in other areas) is a native to North America which grows 3’-4’ high. Butterfly weed is a trouble-free perennial that will come up year after year in the same place without crowding its neighbors. It is drought tolerant due to it’s long, tuberous tap root (which also makes it difficult to transplant, once established). It gets its name of ‘Butterfly Weed’ because the flowers are a nectar source for many butterflies and the leaves are a food...
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Butterfly Weed is a hardy perennial, native to the United States, and found in 40 states from Florida to North Dakota, from Massachusetts to Arizona. So called because it attracts butterflies, it is best used in borders and meadows. It does not transplant well.
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Pleurisy Root Butterfly Weed Asclepias tuberosa Traditional - Medicinal 2-3 ft. Hardy Perennial Often known as Pleurisy Root, this plant has been used by many cultures for lung ailments and as a poultice for bruises, swellings and rheumatism. An important nectar plant for butterflies, whose cocoons can often be found on the plant in late summer. Brilliant orange flowers.
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This is a perennial plant (zones 4-9; self-sowing annual in other areas) is a native to North America which grows 3’-4’ high. Butterfly weed is a trouble-free perennial that will come up year after year in the same place without crowding its neighbors. It is drought tolerant due to it’s long, tuberous tap root (which also makes it difficult to transplant, once established). It gets its name of ‘Butterfly Weed’ because the flowers are a nectar source for many butterflies and the leaves are a food...
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Butterfly Weed - (Asclepias tuberosa)
Clusters of long-lasting, fragrant, vivid-orange blossoms attract swarms of butterflies. Monarchs feed on the nectar. Good cut flower; seed pods dry well. Ameri-can colonists learned its medicinal uses from Native Americans before 1690. Found in a catalog as early as 1827 and in Brecks Book of Flowers in the 1850s. A tough, drought-resistant, native wildflower. *Prechill seeds @34°F~1 mo. G@70°F~3-4 wks. perennial zn 3-9 2-3 ft. Approx 50 seeds per pack.
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An extremely hardy, longlived perennial native to North America. The magnificent bright orange flowers are concentrated in compact clusters at the top of branching stems. The flowers produce a large quantity of nectar which attracts butterflies throughout the growing season. Requires a very well drained sandy or gravelly soil in full sun. Butterfly Weed may take up to two years to become established from seed.
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This is a perennial plant (zones 4-9; self-sowing annual in other areas) is a native to North America which grows 3’-4’ high. Butterfly weed is a trouble-free perennial that will come up year after year in the same place without crowding its neighbors. It is drought tolerant due to it’s long, tuberous tap root (which also makes it difficult to transplant, once established). It gets its name of ‘Butterfly Weed’ because the flowers are a nectar source for many butterflies and the leaves are a food...
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