Which flowering plant? Its a butterfly magnet.
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S.Ahmed
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Which flowering plant? Its a butterfly magnet.
Which plant is it,it attracts lots of butterflies, once I have even counted 8 butterflies(all orange) clinging to it.
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Tahir Khan
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Re: Which flowering plant? Its a butterfly magnet.
According to my knowledge, Asclepias curassavica or commonly called Butterfly milk weed is a magnet. Plant this and it will be smothered with butterflies 
Seeds area available in the forum's seed bank ..
Seeds area available in the forum's seed bank ..
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M Farooq
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Re: Which flowering plant? Its a butterfly magnet.
Nice picture of our local butterflies. The plant in the pictures looks very closely related to Taraxacum officinale.