Butterfly Weed

Butterfly weed is one of a number of milkweed plants suspected of being poisonous. A tuberous, perennial plant native to North America and generally grown for its flowers, the butterfly weed and all other milkweeds are distinguished by the whitish, latex-like fluid that exudes from damaged or cut stems.

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