BUTTERFLY WEED / MILKWEED 'Orange Shades' seeds Asclepias tuberosa

BUTTERFLY WEED / MILKWEED

'Orange Shades'

20 seeds

Butterfly Weed is a perennial plant (Asclepias tuberosa) with vibrant blooms of orange flowers. Not only beautiful, it's a vital source of nectar for pollinators like butterflies and other insects. Native to north America but still highly attractive to local butterflies.

This variety flowers in the first year, seeds benefit from cold scarification.

Height 70cm

image 2- Eric Hunt, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

image 1 - John Flannery from Richmond County, North Carolina, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons