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Asclepias verticillata - Whorled Milkweed - Asclepiadaceae (The Milkweed Family)
Asclepias verticillata - Whorled Milkweed - Asclepias verticillata is a rare eastern North American native known as the whorled milkweed.
Asclepias verticillata - Asclepias verticillata is a rare eastern North American native known as the whorled milkweed.
  
11cm
Price: $19.99
Zone Hardiness: 3-9
Light: Part Sun, Full Sun
Height: 2-4'
Width: 12-24"
Flower Colour: White/Cream

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Asclepias verticillata is a rare eastern North American native known as the whorled milkweed. It is a dainty ethereal species popular with monarch butterflies with whorls of narrow, pointed leaves with curled margins on 2-3 foot stems topped with clusters of beautiful and delicate white and green flowers in summer followed by attractive seed pods. Spreads by underground rhizomes forming nice colonies but is not invasive. Grow in full to part sun in average to dry soil.
Details
  • Class: Deciduous
  • Soil Moisture: Average, Dry, Drought Tolerant
  • Flowering Time: Summer
  • Fragrant: No
  • Foliage Colour: Green
  • Deer Resistant: Unknown
  • Attracts: Butterflies, Bees
  • Habitat: Forest glades, dry prairies, dry slopes, dry open woods, fields and roadsides from Saskatchewan to Ontario south to Arizona and Florida.
  • Geographical Origin: Americas - North America
  • BC Native: No


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