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  • Purple Milkweed
  • Purple Milkweed
  • Purple Milkweed

Purple Milkweed Seed Packet

$6.95
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Product Description

"Purple Milkweed will catch your eye! It has an electric shock of purply-magenta flowers. It is one of the few species that can be grown in morning or filtered sun. While driving along a highway in Kansas on a milkweed photography trip I spotted this beautiful plant and it stopped me in my tracks!" — Bobby Gendron

The Facts:

  • Latin name: Asclepias purpurascens
  • Quantity of seeds per packet: 25
  • Monarch butterfly host plant
  • Rich purple flowers
  • Hardy perennial
  • 36" - 48" tall
  • Blooms from June until July
  • Cold hardy in USDA zones 3 - 11

Growing Instructions: Start Purple Milkweed seeds outdoors in late November. Pick a location with morning sun or filtered sun and prepare soil for good drainage, if needed. Plant seeds 1/8" deep and 18” apart, using 3 seeds per hole. Water once, and then allow the winter rain and/or snow to provide moisture until the spring. The seeds will germinate 10 - 20 days after the danger of nighttime freezing has past. Once the seedlings reach 1", thin out so you have individual plants spaced 18” apart. Water regularly allowing the soil to go nearly dry between each watering. Fertilize monthly in the summer with a general purpose fertilizer. If you prefer to plant the seeds outdoors in the spring, read our detailed instructions on cold moist stratification.

Purple Milkweed Range Map:

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Map ©: Kartesz, J.T. 2013. Floristic Synthesis of North America, Version 1.0. Biota of North America Program (BONAP).

Purple Milkweed is native to the following states: Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin


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