What plant is this?

RZRBCK BEE · 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?

lenape13 · May 31, 2012, 12:32:43 PM

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

Scadsobees · May 31, 2012, 12:36:01 PM

Milkweed!

Rurification · May 31, 2012, 12:52:14 PM

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

RZRBCK BEE · May 31, 2012, 01:05:54 PM

Good for pollen, nectar, or both?

RZRBCK BEE · May 31, 2012, 01:09:10 PM

BTW Scads, great link.

BlueBee · 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.