Butterfly Weed/Milkweed ???

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tamlamb Plymouth, PA(Zone 5b) Sep 01, 2001

Hello I was surfing the net tonight and found a site that lists Butterfly Weed as a Milkweed plant. Is this true ?
Tamlamb

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Sep 01, 2001

Checked and the answer is yes' Asclepias tuberosa
AKA(butterfly weed)

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motts1 south central, WI(Zone 5a) Sep 01, 2001

The nice thing is that the butterfly weed comes in nicer colors and is a more refined plant (smaller leaves) I love my orange plant and the white one "Ice Ballet". The pink one is OK also, but does not have the color impact in my garden as the other 2; also the orange is about 18" tall in my garden. I planted the Gay Butterfly plant seeds, but did not have much luck-the catalog showed plants from cream through dark orange. Maybe next year. Marcia

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oblambert (Zone 6a) Sep 01, 2001

I did not realize the milkweed and the butterfly plant was the same thing....I do know that Monarch butterfly caterpillars absolutely love to eat milkweed.

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poppysue Westbrook, ME(Zone 5a) Sep 01, 2001

Milkweed and Butterfly weed are both species of asclepias. There's many other species too ... and they're all loved by butterflies. http://www.monarchwatch.org/milkweed/guide/index.htm

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