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Butterfly Milkweed - Asclepias tuberosa
Light: Full Sun
Moisture: Dry - Average
Height & Spread: 2 - 3’ & 1 - 2’
Description: Beautiful perennial featuring striking orange flowers in summer atop narrow green foliage. Monarch caterpillar host plant and attractive to variety of other pollinators. Flowers give way to seed pods filled with seeds attached to silky white hairs. Thrives in poor, dry soils. Deer and rabbit resistant.
Wetland Indicator Status: FACU
Light: Full Sun
Moisture: Dry - Average
Height & Spread: 2 - 3’ & 1 - 2’
Description: Beautiful perennial featuring striking orange flowers in summer atop narrow green foliage. Monarch caterpillar host plant and attractive to variety of other pollinators. Flowers give way to seed pods filled with seeds attached to silky white hairs. Thrives in poor, dry soils. Deer and rabbit resistant.
Wetland Indicator Status: FACU