Butterfly Weed/Indian Paintbrush

Asclepias tuberosa

Description:

Low profile plant with a large group of orange flowers clustered together.

Habitat:

Growing along a walking path at Konza Prairie Nature Area in the Kansas Flint Hills.

2 Species ID Suggestions

jdbco2001 11 years ago

Butterfly Weed/Indian Paintbrush

Asclepias tuberosa Asclepias tuberosa

Lacey Bear 11 years ago

Butterfly flower

Asclepias tuberosa

4 Comments

jdbco2001 11 years ago

Thanks for the confirmation and welcome to Project Noah. This place is really addicting!

Lacey Bear 11 years ago

Oh. Should have look here before submitting my id :p beautiful flower!!

jdbco2001 11 years ago

Thanks for pointing me in the milkweed direction! After looking more into this I'm thinking it's Butterfly Weed/Indian Paintbrush (Asclepias tuberosa) because of the dry prairie location/soil and differing inner flower petal shapes. The scarlet milkweed flowers look to cluster differently in pictures too, but I'm not sure if what I've found online is a good representation of the species to compare with.