Purple Milkweed Seeds, Asclepias purpurascens

Description

Purple Milkweed Seeds, Asclepias purpurascens.

Description:

• Perennial: USDA hardiness zones 3a-9b (lows -40 °C or -40 °F)

• Native to most of the eastern US and Ontario Canada

• Full sun to part shade

• Height: 2 to 3 feet

• Spacing: 1 to 2 feet 

• Flowers: rich rose to a light purplish color

• Blooms late spring to early summer

Sowing:

• Sow seeds directly outside in fall or start in milk jug greenhouse to overwinter.

• or Start seeds indoors 2 months before final frost- seeds must be cold stratified 30 days.

• Not an aggressive spreader 

• Fragrant flowers are popular with pollinators

• Pretty purple flowers (in multiple shades) are some of milkweed’s finest!

Native to: AR, CT, DE, GA, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, NE, NH, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OK, PA, RI, SD, TN, TX, VA, WV, WI.