Bringing Birds, Bees and Butterflies To Your Backyard
Bringing Birds, Bees and Butterflies To Your Backyard
Phonetic: as-KLEE-pee-as ver-ti-si-LAY-tuh
Whorled Milkweed has very skinny, "whorled" leaves and can bloom anytime between July and September, which is later in the year than many other Milkweeds. There are clusters of approximately 20 flowers near the top of each plant. The white flowers can be a greenish white on some plants. The nectar of the flowers attracts many kinds of insects, including long-tongued bees, short-tongued bees, wasps, flies, butterflies, skippers and beetles. Like all members of the Asclepias genus, Asclepias verticillata is a larval host plant for Monarch butterflies.
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