Key features

• •Attract pollinators. A showy and fragrant cluster of brilliant pink flowers on top of a tall branching stem. Its flowers are beloved by bees and butterflies.
• •Use. Swamp milkweed is a fantastic addition to a native garden. This low maintenance perennial is ideal for sunny borders, cottage gardens, pollinator gardens, and along the edges of ponds and streams.
• •Culitivation. Swamp milkweed thrives in moist, medium to wet clay soil. The plant can do well in average garden soil if it does not dry out. Wet meadows or rain gardens offer ideal conditions.
• •When to plant. Milkweed plants can be planted in spring or fall in USDA 3-6.
• •Feature. Asclepias incarnata, the swamp milkweed, rose milkweed, rose milkflower, and swamp silkweed, is a beautiful fragrant perennial plant.