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Butterfly weed, scientifically known as Asclepias tuberosa, is native to North America, primarily found in the eastern and central regions of the United States and Canada. It typically grows in open fields, prairies, and along roadsides, thriving in well-drained soils and full sun. The plant is well-known for its bright orange flowers, which attract pollinators like butterflies, particularly monarchs. Butterfly weed is part of the milkweed family and serves as a crucial host plant for monarch caterpillars.
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What is a butterfly that flies south for the winter and lays eggs on milk weed?
monarch butterfly
What do Lophocampa maculata eat?
They love Butterfly weed.
What would you find by a monarch butterfly?
milk weed
Is the butterfly weed angiosperm or gymnosperm?
The butterfly weed is an angiosperm. Angiosperms are flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed within a fruit, while gymnosperms produce naked seeds. Butterfly weed produces seeds within a fruit structure, making it an angiosperm.
Can you smoke butterfly weed?
will god be with you. It's awezome plant!
What is the diet of a two-tailed swallowtail butterfly?
Favorite Flowers: Butterfly weed, phlox, clover, milkweed, Hesperis, Mexican Sunflower and thistle
Do monarch butterfly caterpillars eat dill weed?
They are feeding on dill weed in my garden right now. They have also fed on parsley from my garden.
Butterfly weed monocot or dicot?
depends on the exact type of flower - "wild flower" is too general a description
What animals eat milk weed?
The caterpillars of the monarch butterfly. They take up the toxins from the plant and use it to become toxic themselves, that´s why they and the orange butterfly have such bright colours.
What does the name Yarah mean?
1. Brazilian - origin, meaning: 'water lady' 2. Arabic - origin, meaning: small butterfly
How do you make charming butterfly gardens?
Make sure you have plenty of diversity in your butterfly garden so that there are plants that bloom all spring and summer. Milkweed is a favorite of monarchs. Swallowtails like dill. You need the host plants for the caterpillars but the adult butterflies like butterfly weed, butterfly bush, lantana, coneflowers, asters, azalea, Joe Pye weed, and zinnia. The Missouri Botanical Gardens has a nice web page on this. You can also have some butterfly puddlers. Butterflies need shallow sources of water and they get minerals by walking on mud.
What is a weird fact about butterflies?
I am a pretty butterfly, also some butterflies eat milk weed to poison prey
