This is Asclepias tuberosa.  It's also called Butterfly weed.  This is the milkweed that you can get from seed catalogs and garden centers.  It grows in dry, open soil, and roadways all over North America.

 

It also attracts butterflies, and is a host plant for Monarchs.  It grows in the meadow on the way to the front entrance of our community, and is quite noticeable when it blooms.  That should be soon.  

 

Hopefully it will bloom before Keith hays that field. 

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!