If your dream garden includes fluttering butterflies, butterfly weed can help bring it to life. With its bright orange blooms ...

Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) is a vibrant, low-maintenance native plant that supports pollinators in the garden. It's part of the milkweed family, and, like its relatives, it "supports a whole ...

My first encounter with butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) occurred while hiking through a meadow at Gifford Pinchot State Park in northern York County. Mixed in with the native grasses were green, ...

Drive along nearly any country road bordered by grassy fields and unmowed roadsides in Georgia now, and you’re apt to spy the tall, brilliant orange blooms of one of Georgia’s most beautiful summer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photograph: Michael Stewart, Uli Lorimer/Brooklyn Botanical Garden (Photograph: Michael Stewart, Uli Lorimer/Brooklyn Botanical ...

If you want monarch butterflies to flutter through your garden, you have to entice them with a tasty snack. And there is little tastier to butterflies than the aptly named butterfly weed (Asclepias ...

Wildflowers have had a special place in my heart since my childhood days. There was a field between our house and the church that I loved to walk through, especially in the spring. It brings back ...

“Few if any of our native plants add more to the beauty of the midsummer landscape than the milkweeds, and of this family no member is more satisfying to the … eye than the gorgeous butterfly-weed, ...

With all the buzz about bees, butterflies and other pollinators, it’s not surprising the Perennial Plant Association has chosen the popular American native flower Asclepia tuberosa, better known as ...

The Indiana Native Plant and Wildflower Society has launched an initiative to declare butterfly weed as the state’s official wildflower. Society members plan to spend the 2017 session walking ...

This beautiful orange flower will bring many beneficial bugs to your garden. Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) is a vibrant, low-maintenance native plant that supports pollinators in the garden.