Key features

• •A pollinator magnet you simply must grow in your sunny garden, it is a native American perennial with so many merits, you will wonder how you ever got by without it!
• •Showy Milkweed is a stout, well-branched plant, airy and beautifully textured. The blue-green leaves are thick and slightly hairy, topped by glorious rosy-pink starbursts fully 4 to 5 inches wide from late spring into early fall.
• •Butterflies aren't the only pollinators to visit these blooms. Honeybees and bumblebees find the nectar irresistible too! Be sure to site Showy Milkweed in a fully sunny spot, in well-drained soil.
• •Milkweed is a food source for Monarch caterpillars, you may find some nibbled foliage. In fact, you should! That means that the caterpillars have fed and are ready for the chrysalis stage.
• •Here are just a few of the butterflies you can look for on your Showy Milkweed: Checkspots, Hairstreaks, Painted Ladies, Pale Swallowtails, Queens, Tiger Swallotails, Variegated fritillaries, Monarchs.