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Posted by Steven (Chicagoland, United States) on 31 July 2009 in Animal & Insect and Portfolio.

Scarlet milkweed (asclepias curassavica) is a plant with brilliant reddish orange flowers and is excellent in butterfly gardens. Milkweed is the only host to the Monarch butterfly. Milkweed contains a white toxic sap. It is used to expel worms and induce vomiting. It affects the heart similarly to a digitalis plant. Birds will not eat butterflies that feed from this flower. Photo taken July 13, 2009.

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