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Asclepias curassavica is a tender perennial that grows upright and tall with spiraling lanceolate leaves. The flowers, in small scarlet red and orange umbels, are very bright and showy, and wonderful at attracting Monarch butterflies. Blood Flower is a milkweed and thus contains a milky sap that exudes from the foliage when cut or damaged.

This native classic is best known as a food of larval monarch butterflies (along with it's siblings A. incarnata and A. tuberosa). Robust and stoloniferous with deep pink clusters of fragrant flowers in June and July, followed by lovely pods of silky seeds in October.

Many wonderful pastel pink, flat-topped flowers with black cones track the sun like sunflowers. Tennessee Coneflower is a great choice for hot dry sites that are difficult for other species. Compact, vigorous, and very floriferous.