I have been building a native plant garden for approx eight years. The tall plant with the monarch showed up this year. It is one stalk that branches at the top with the long bunches of purple flowers at the end. ChatGPT insists that it is a butterfly bush but it is just the one stalk, and I love the plant and don’t want to remove it, so I refuse to accept that. What else could it be?
by asclepias_fabulosa
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Sorry can’t say its not🦋
Buddleia… Sorry
It’s buddleia, yes.
Maybe you could just move it elsewhere, out of your native plant garden? If you keep on top of dead heading then it won’t seed everywhere (and buddleia seedlings are easy enough to pull out, anyway).
Can someone please help me understand why it’s harmful?
All the reasons why you should not plant it.
https://www.epicgardening.com/plant-butterfly-bush/
We have Japanese knot weed, Phagamities,
Purple loose leaf.
Knot weed is the worst. Just got finished wrapping some drainage pipes that I got into When it dies. It leaves behind stocks that keep accumulating. I’m nervous that they’re flammable.
Phramities also concerned for the dry stocks, but at least the dead stocks will stay up over the winter unless they get hit by ice and does give a measure of privacy from the development to my west.
Back in the 60s purple looseleaf spread so fast but the marsh turned completely purple. It was beautiful. I only see a few plants here and there now, so something is cut back their numbers.