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Botany

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8. Butterfly Weed and Milkweed are in the same genus, Asclepias.
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 08:53 AM
Sep 2014

Orange Butterfly Weed, Common Milkweed, Swamp Red Milkweed,
Sullivants Milkweed, and so on are all Asclepias sp. All of these plants
are good for monarchs and other native pollinators.

Red Milweed likes things a little more damp where as Orange Butterfly
Weed likes things a little dryer. P.M. if you want some red milkweed seed.

two good books





BTW I have seen many many more monarchs this year then last ..... I have one red milkweed
w/ @ least 10 monarch catterpillar on it right now.





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