Butterfly Weed, Pleisy Root

These bright orange flowers contrast beautifully with their dark green leaves. This low growing flower attracts butterflies, bees and hummingbirds. It will bloom all summer if flowers are cut when finished or brought inside as a cut flower. Use it as a bedding plant or cut flower.

Butterfly Weed: Butterfly weed is a great perennial that makes an awesome cut flower while also attracting butterflies and humming birds to the garden! It will develop into a 1 to 3 foot tall bush that loves the corners of beds or the garden border.

Growing Tips: They can grow to be rather wide so allow for 12 to 24 inches between plants in the garden.