Showy milkweed - Asclepias speciosa

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Asclepias speciosa

Regular price $14.99 CAD
SKU: 38920
We only sell freshly harvested seeds from small time growers, hobbyists and collectors.Listing is for 5 Seeds All my Milkweek bring all the butterflies to the yard! Extremely great at hosting Monarch Butterflies A stout, sparingly branched, pubescent perennial, 1 1/2-3 ft. tall, with large, oval, blue-green leaves and showy, spherical clusters of rose-colored flowers. Flowers occur at the top of the stem and on stalks from leaf axils. A grayish, velvety plant with erect leafy stems and with umbels of star-like pinkish flowers in upper axils and at top. Sap milky. Duration: PerennialHabit: HerbRoot Type: TapLeaf Arrangement: OppositeLeaf Complexity:...

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Meet Asclepias speciosa. The common name for this is Showy milkweed. Stargazer Exotics is proud to offer the freshest of rare plant seeds. Other Common names for this rare Other Rare Plants are : Red milkweed, Asclepias speciosa. Check this Showy milkweed (Asclepias speciosa) out along with all of our Other Rare Plants seeds here at Stargazer Exotics. We ship these Other Rare Plants seeds from Canada to anywhere in the World.
$14.99 CAD
We only sell freshly harvested seeds from small time growers, hobbyists and collectors.
Listing is for 5 Seeds

All my Milkweek bring all the butterflies to the yard!

Extremely great at hosting Monarch Butterflies

A stout, sparingly branched, pubescent perennial, 1 1/2-3 ft. tall, with large, oval, blue-green leaves and showy, spherical clusters of rose-colored flowers. Flowers occur at the top of the stem and on stalks from leaf axils. A grayish, velvety plant with erect leafy stems and with umbels of star-like pinkish flowers in upper axils and at top. Sap milky. Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Root Type: Tap
Leaf Arrangement: Opposite
Leaf Complexity: Simple
Leaf Shape: Ovate
Leaf Venation: Pinnate
Leaf Margin: Entire
Fruit Type: Follicle
Size Notes: Generally 1 ½ – 3 ft (½ – 1 m) but can reach 6 ft ( 1.8 m) under favorable conditions.
Leaf: Blue-green color, course, and hairy. Leaf arrangement is opposite and attachment is petiolate. Leaf petioles are 1/8-3/8 in (4-10mm) long. Stems stand erect. Oval shaped, 3-8 in (7 ½ – 20 cm) long and 1-4 in (2 ½-10 cm) wide.
Fruit: Pods 3-4 in (7 ½-10 cm) long. Erect, with hair covering entire pod.
Size Class: 1-3 ft. , 3-6 ft.

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