butterfly weed in English
noun
1
a North American milkweed with bright orange flowers that are attractive to butterflies.
Plants here include prairie rose, nodding onion, gray-headed coneflower, butterfly weed , green milkweed, hoary puccoon, and even eastern prickly pear cactus.
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1. Mixing the old with the new, she leaves established azaleas, hostas and other conventional garden plants but surrounds them with common milkweed, swamp milkweed, butterfly weed, echinacea, coneflowers, Bonesets, blue mistflowers, cardinal flower, violets, red-twig dogwoods, ironweed, asters, pussytoes and many more species that feed