Asclepias Tuberosa Orange Butterfly

Crowded umbels of waxy-orange flowers, with reflexed petals, are held on strong stems giving three months or more of tangerine orange blooms. They make excellent cut flowers, and dead-heading them will stimulate another bloom cycle about a month later. The flowers are heavily laden with nectar and pollen and are very attractive to butterflies, bees, and other beneficial insects. Green fruits later develop which rupture revealing seeds with long, silvery-white, silky hairs. Few seeds collected.