I’ve been hoping all year that this plant was going to be a huge, beautiful butterfly weed bunch, but after seeing actual butterfly weed on a field trip for my field botany class, this doesn’t appear to be butterfly weed after all.
Any ideas what it is?
Did you buy it as seeds or a plant, or did it come up on its own? You are right, this don’t appear to be an Asclepias species, which typically have single leaves that come directly off the stem.
I think I got it as a little sprout from a native plant rescue staffed by volunteers, so IDing it was probably questionable
I wonder if it’s a Gaillardia species or something related to an oxeye daisy - the leaf clasping a “branch” as it shoots off the stem reminds me of them
I just question the aster ID because it doesn’t seem to have the clasping leaves that asters do