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- Mature height: 1 to 2.5 feet; grows in clumps
- Light: Full sun
- Soil: Dry to medium
- Landscape uses: Monarch habitat, Butterfly garden, rock garden, naturalized areas. Also good in sunny border areas or slopes.
- Deer resistance: High
- Fun fact: Also known as Pleurisy root because Native Americans chewed the roots as a cure for lung ailments.
- Pair with Little Bluestem, Purple Coneflower, Brown-Eyed Susan, Golden Alexanders.
Milkweed, Butterfly
SKU: AT02-SS
$15.00Price
1 Gallon
Pollinator value: Very high.
Attracts butterflies and is an essential plant for the survival of Monarch butterflies. Also larval host to Grey Hairstreaks and Queens. Also attracts hummingbirds and is of special value to native bees, honey bees and bumble bees.
One of the showiest wildflowers, Butterfly weed produces flat-topped, yellow-orange to bright-orange flower clusters.
Easy to grow and resistant to drought.