Texas Gardening: Texas Native Plant Pictures by color ( Orange ), 1 by htop

htop wrote:
Bloodflower, Swallow-wort, Butterfly Weed, Mexican Milkweed, Scarlet Milkweed (Asclepias curassavica), Asclepiadaceae Family, naturalized, perennial, listed as a shrub/subshrub/forb/herb, blooms mid-summer through late summer.early fall


The Mexican Milkweed is an excellent tall xeriscape plant. It blooms continually until the first hard freeze. The blooms attract butterflies. It self-seeds very freely. It has a taproot, which if harmed, will kill the plant. Transplant it when the plants are very small in order to nnot damage the taproot. It is a great butterfly attractor and a food source for monarch and queen butterfly catepillars.

For more information, see its entry in the PlantFiles:
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/604/index.html

This message was edited Sep 10, 2005 1:12 PM