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Yeah, that's the one -- Butterfly weed.
I'll have to look and see if there is anything like what you describe
around here. Maybe I'll run across that site for ID.

Best wishes! Are you getting today as a holiday?
Lynn

>If you are talking about what I call Butterfly Weed, Asclepias tuberosa,
>then no, it's not that.
>My digital camera is broken or I would take a picture of it.
>The leaves of this plant look just like lambs ears (Stachys byzantina)
>light gray, fuzzy, soft.  The plant has a basal rosette like mullein,
>and 2 foot tall thick, wooly stalk with multiple buds on the sides, and
>the flowers are 1 inch in diameter and so hot pink that from a distance
>they look red.  It is not orangey at all.
>
>Bev