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The Yard Of Food Project
Butterfly Weed
Is commonly known as "butterfly milkweed" because of its popularity with butterflies and also goes by the name "pleurisy root."
Though slow growing, this plant has been used by Native Americans for its medicinal benefits as an expectorant and treatment for respiratory infections and coughs, and has also been known to increase milk production in nursing mothers.
Bees already love it. Ignoring the rest of the pollinator garden, for the Butterfly Weed.
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