Also called ◼︎ orange milkweed (although do not confuse with sister-species
tropical milkweed or bloodflower Asclepias curassavica,
which is also sometimes called that). Also called/being rebranded butterfly flower. Doug Tallamy is trying to rebrand them monarch's delight.
Part of
milkweed genus Asclepias
(🏛❀ state wildflower of Illinois) in
dogbane family Apocynaceae.
Native to 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 North America.
🗺 Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48)
(color key).
Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)
Asclepias hosts caterpillars of 13 species
of butterflies and moths, in some areas,
including being the only host plant for ⚫︎ eggs and 🐛︎ larvae of the
monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus.
Poster of monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus lifecycle, larval
host plants, adult nectar plants, and growing info for these plants. 
Growing milkweeds
for monarch butterflies
Milkweed — It's Not
Just for Monarchs
Uses by butterflies,
planting info
Uses by 🐝︎ bees,
planting info
To:
- see where monarch butterflies are now on their migration, or
- report your own sightings (in 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 Canada, USA, and México),
please see
monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus > box on "citizen science."
Use in a sidewalk strip garden or mailbox garden, bloom dates, height, light, moisture, etc. (Pennsylvania). (pages 17, 23, 24, 27 and 41)
Wildflowers of West Michigan (page 13)
Bloom dates (Michigan). (page 3)
Bloom dates in temperate prairie regions. (page 17)