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Asclepias - Milkweed - Butterfly Weed
Asclepias ovolifolia - oval-leaf milkweed Butterfly Weed
Asclepias ovalifolia
Oval-Leaf Milkweed

It possesses a clear clean, almost transparent looking white flower, with green and pink tones that are so delicate.  The flower stalk emerges alone.  This is a somewhat rare variety of Milkweed / Butterfly Weed.  It does like the cooler temps of the more northern climates, but planting on east side of structure will lower growing zone at least one zone.   
Asclepias syriaca - Common Milkweed
Asclepias syriaca
Common Milkweed

This is an excellent pollinator and butterfly attracktor. Grows to about 3-4' tall.  They make excellent cut flowers. The seed fluff used to be used to mop up Oil spills at sea.  Bowstrings were made from the stalks by some Native American tribes.  
image 0 image 1 Request a custom order and have something made just for you. This seller usually responds within 24 hours. Asclepias tubrosa - Gay Butterflies
Asclepias tubrosa 
Gay Butterflies 

Gay Butterflies is about 30” tall - 24” wide, and very bushy, as the Silky form, but this is a perennial where the Silky formula is at best a tender Perennial and more like an annual in northern climates. It is very slow to re-emerge in the spring so you might want to plant markers such as spring bulbs.
Asclepias speciosa - Showy Milkweed
Ascleias speciosa 
Showy Milkweed 

This is also known as Creek Milkweed, and Greek Milkweed. It was at one time wild in all sorts of fields, but due to the use of pesticides, and the drift of them on the wind, when they were being sprayed, it is very hard to find in the wild any longer. 



Asclepias tuberosa - Pleurisy Root
Asclepias tubrosa 
Pleurisy Root

 The roots have been used as a medicinal herb for the treatment for a range of lung diseases.  Considered especially useful as a respiratory cure for painful breathing issues such as pneumonia. The Natchez peoples used it for tea from the build root to treat pneumonia.
Asclepias viridian 
Spider Milkweed
Asclepias curassavica, Silky Formula Mix Milkweed
Asclepias carassavica 
Silky Formula Milkweed

This is also known as the Blood Flower, like all Asclepias, have very deep tap roots, so special care is needed in transplanting them. If you live in Zone 6 or below, they will need to be grown in pots, and brought into the house, garage or greenhouse for the winter months. 
Asclepias incarnata - Swamp Milkweed
Asclepias incarnata 
Swamp Milkweed

This variety has a lovely light vanilla scent which is an added bonus to you as well. The incarnata is taller than the Silky form or the tuberosa, and they are equally as potent. 
They produce a good quality fibre, obtained from the bark, for making twine, cloth, etc.
Whorled Milkweed - Asclepias verticillata
Asclepias verticillata
Whorled Milkweed

So beautiful as a dried flower. It grows to a height of 1 to 2.5” tall, and about 2’ wide. It blooms from June until September which is needed to feed the butterflies, hummingbirds, and other beneficial pollinators. The flower is a beautiful creamy white, very showy and the leaves are thin and lance like.
Asclepias - Milkweed - Butterfly Weed

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