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Title: What plant is this?
Post by: RZRBCK BEE on May 31, 2012, 12:04:54 PM

My bees are hitting this stuff but I don't know what it is. Any ideas? Nectar or pollen?

(http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee291/blackriverreds/orangeplant.jpg)

Title: Re: What plant is this?
Post by: lenape13 on May 31, 2012, 12:32:43 PM

Don't know but it's pretty. I'm curious to know what it is as well.

Title: Re: What plant is this?
Post by: Scadsobees on May 31, 2012, 12:36:01 PM

Milkweed! (http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/prairie/plantx/btf_milkweedx.htm)

Title: Re: What plant is this?
Post by: Rurification on May 31, 2012, 12:52:14 PM

Asclepias tuberosa. It's a milkweed. Called butterfly weed here.

Title: Re: What plant is this?
Post by: RZRBCK BEE on May 31, 2012, 01:05:54 PM

Good for pollen, nectar, or both?

Title: Re: What plant is this?
Post by: RZRBCK BEE on May 31, 2012, 01:09:10 PM

BTW Scads, great link.

Title: Re: What plant is this?
Post by: BlueBee on May 31, 2012, 08:37:14 PM

I bought one of these (yes paid good money for a weed!) last summer and had a dozen monarch caterpillars' roaming around eating it. Very interesting to watch them grow into butterflies.

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