Swamp Milkweed
Asclepias incarnata
Pink and white flowers from June into August, worked by brown-belted bumble bees and eastern carpenter bees. Monarch caterpillars feed on its leaves. It grows wild in 60 of North Carolina’s 100 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 4 ft to 5 ft tall, 2.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Pink and white, Jun to Aug
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners; wants 18 in of soil
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Butterflies
- Host plant for the Monarch
- Caterpillars
- 14 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 59 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Brown-belted bumble bee (Bombus griseocollis), Eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica), Southern plains bumble bee (Bombus fraternus), Giant resin bee (Megachile sculpturalis)
Grows well with
New England Aster
Dwarf Azalea
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Calico Aster
Swamp Azalea
Fragrant Sumac
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Facts from the Quercus record for Asclepias incarnata.