LGS Notes: Butterflyweed is one of our absolute favorite Maryland natives.  It works well in rain gardens, dry soil, meadows, and rocky soil.  It is also an excellent food source for a variety of pollinators, including monarchs.  Butterfly weed grows much shorter than milkweed at only 2.5 feet tall. We’ve had it succeed in pots in the shade although it usually likes at least 5 hours of sun. Butterfly weed looks awesome in a meadow planting mixed with little bluestem, prairie dropseed, cardinal flower and gayfeather. I like to combine it with milkweed, false sunflower, asters, bee balm and purple coneflowers in a pollinator garden.

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