Height: 2’ to 3’ Spread: 2’ to 3’ Light Needs: full sun Water: average to dry Flower color: orange (rarely yellow) Bloom time: May to July
This wildflower has showy flowers that attract a wide variety of insect pollinators. In particular, this plant is well known as an valuable host plant for the larvae of monarch butterflies. Seed pods split open in late summer to early fall to release seeds that float on the wind. This is a clumping plant that is suitable for any garden situation from a formal flower border to a natural setting. It is a long-lived perennial plant. Besides the monarch butterfly, a wide assortment of bugs, beetles and moths feed on milkweeds. Like most milkweeds, it is deer resistant.
