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 19 of West Virginia’s 55 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
- 13 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
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
New England Aster
Calico Aster
Bluestem Goldenrod
Fragrant Sumac
New Jersey Tea
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Facts from the Quercus record for Asclepias incarnata.