Butterfly Milk Weed Balloon Plant, Butterfly Garden, Butterfly Weed, Hairy Balls, Fur Balls, Cotton-Bush, Oscar, Giant Swan Milkweed, Asclepias Physoca (24+ Seeds) 24+ Seeds per pack with detailed growing instructions included from Onalee's Seeds Hardy zone 6 and warmer. Full sun/part shade. Dry, sandy soil. Suitable for containers or landscape. Butterfly Garden plant. Attractive to Monarch Butterflies who use leaves as a host plant for their caterpillars. A slender, deciduous shrub, often treated as an annual but reported hardy to zone 6. Quick and easy to grow, producing stems of small white flowers that magically transform into unusual translucent , soft, spiny balloons. Adds fun to borders and cut flower arrangements. Create your own butterfly garden by combining these with Torch Mexican Sunflowers (check my other offerings!)  you will be amazed at the variety and quantity of butterflies you will attract to your garden with these plants!! Dont worry if the caterpillars eat the leaves  that is a milkweed plant's purpose in your garden, to help propagate more butterflies! To make sure you have plants for yourself to enjoy, be sure to plant enough for you AND the butterflies!