The Perennial Plant Association has named butterfly weed its 2017 Perennial Plant of the Year, a boon for the plant that’s the primary food source for monarch butterfly caterpillars.

These flowering hardy perennials and bulbs do well with fall planting, which allows them to get established before blooming ...

Butterfly weed’s standout orange flowers bloom from early summer to fall, attracting hummingbirds, native bees, and butterflies—including monarchs, which rely on milkweeds as larval host plants.

Butterfly weed is a plant with beautiful, bright-orange flowers that attract pollinators. But consider these issues before planting it in your yard.

Orange blooms give your garden a dramatic splash of color and attract pollinators. Our lineup of orange-flowered perennials ...

Many of our perennials are PPY winners. I'm surprised the butterfly weed wasn't chosen much earlier. Last April I purchased six more transplants because of the many favorable traits.

If you want monarch butterflies to flutter through your garden, you have to entice them with a tasty snack. And there is little tastier to butterflies than the aptly named butterfly weed ...

Uses: Butterfly weed is a perfect selection for full-sun meadow or prairie gardens as well as formal to semi-formal urban gardens. Flower arrangers find the plants make long-lasting cut flowers.

Identified as the 2017 Perennial Plant of the Year by the Perennial Plant Association, butterfly weed is known for its ability to support insects and birds and serves as the primary caterpillar ...

Butterfly Weed, "Asclepias tuberosa," thrives with neglect, in drought-like conditions and poor soil. It's one of the plants on the New York State List of Native Plants, which means that they may ...

The bright orange of the butterfly weed works nicely with yellow and orange daylilies, giving me just the right texture and adds a nice shape that complements the other flowers.