Butterfly Milkweed
(Asclepias tuberosa)
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Provides food for:
- Butterflies (flowers)
- Honey bees (flowers)
- Native bees (flowers)
- Hummingbirds (flowers, insects)
- Caterpillars (foliage)
- Songbirds (caterpillars and other insects)
Notes:
- Monarch caterpillars often use this milkweed more in the fall than the spring or summer.
- This species can be “loved to death.” It grows naturally in pretty hard, dry soil.
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