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Butterfly weed
Asclepias tuberosa
About
Asclepias tuberosa, commonly known as butterfly weed, is a species of milkweed native to eastern and southwestern North America. It is commonly known as butterfly weed because of the butterflies that are attracted to the plant by its color and its copious production of nectar.
- Family
- Apocynaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Asclepias tuberosa
- Slug
- asclepias-tuberosa
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Apocynaceae
- Genus
- Asclepias
- Species
- tuberosa
- Wikidata QID
- Q311131
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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