Milkweed
Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ in a Minute
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Episode #315 | Original Air Date: May 14, 2021
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Despite their inauspicious name reflecting their milky sap, milkweeds are important host plants for certain butterflies and a keystone addition to your Florida-Friendly butterfly garden.
Butterfly weed is a perennial native milkweed that attracts both queen and monarch butterflies, providing nectar and food for larva. It has orange, yellow or white flowers that appear in late summer and early fall.
Tropical milkweed has bunches of orange, yellow, and red tubular flowers. It is a larval food plant for the monarch, queen, and soldier butterflies, and is a nectar plant for many others. It blooms much of the year and reseeds freely.
Both plants are sure to attract beautiful butterflies to your garden!
Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ in a Minute is a production of the University of Florida’s Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Program, IFAS Extension, and WUFT-FM in cooperation with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
