Sunday, September 18, 2011
The Purchased Plant
This is the Butterfly Weed I purchased at Buchanan's Native Plants. The Identifier is a flower... bracelet... thing that I won in Ms. Casperson's class last year.
Chosen Plant: More Info
Although this is a tad late...
The plant me and Rebecca chose to get was a Butterfly Bush, otherwise known as Milkweed (Asclepias curassavica) it grows best in full sunlight and well drained soil. It grows up to 3 feet 6 inches making it a native shrub. It is drought tolerant and flowers bright orange attracting Monarch butterflies.
Sources: Plant's Label, Native Plant Handout.
The plant me and Rebecca chose to get was a Butterfly Bush, otherwise known as Milkweed (Asclepias curassavica) it grows best in full sunlight and well drained soil. It grows up to 3 feet 6 inches making it a native shrub. It is drought tolerant and flowers bright orange attracting Monarch butterflies.
Sources: Plant's Label, Native Plant Handout.
Monday, September 5, 2011
The Plant My Group Chose
Me and Rebecca have chose to grow a Butterfly Bush for our APES native plant growing project. The most obvious reason for this is because that the flowers are pretty, and the butterflies it attracts should be just as beautiful, but there is a more deep ecological reason behind this choice: Growing a butterfly bush would allow us to better comprehend the important relationships between producers (the bush) and consumers(the butterflies) within an ecosystem, and how if the bush were to disappear the butterflies might vanish as well.
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