Orange Butterfly Bush
Orange Butterfly Bush
Orange Butterfly Bush
Orange Butterfly Bush
Orange Butterfly Bush
Orange Butterfly Bush
Orange Butterfly Bush
Orange Butterfly Bush
Don’t confuse the Butterfly Bush with Butterfly Weed. Some people mistakenly call another famous butterfly attracting plant “butterfly bush”, but that’s incorrect. “butterfly weed” is the common name of our famous flame-orange milkweed native wildflower, Asclepias tuberosa. It grows from Canada to Florida, and when happy in dry soils and full sun, can be a sensation of beauty. Unlike the more common milkweed, Butterfly weed forms a multi-branched clump only about 2 feet tall. It’s one of the few native wildflowers that are so beautiful, they’ve been taken into the garden with no “improvements.” The only changes I’ve ever seen in garden catalogs for butterfly weed is the name. Some retailers simply can’t bring themselves to use the dreaded “W” word in their catalogs. Sometimes buttefly weed is sold as “orange glory flower.” I’ve also seen “orange butterfly flower”. But any experienced plant person in the USA knows it’s plain old, super-beautiful butterfly weed.
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