
Apocynum androsaemifolium (Dogbane). Rock Creek. commons.wikimedia.org (Accessed 8/2017).
Apocynum androsaemifolium is a perennial herb to 80 cm tall; sap milky, acrid; colonial, stems often inclined, branched stems lack a central axis.
Leaves opposite, oblong to egg-shaped, to 8 cm long pale, often hairy below.
Flowers pinkish-white, radially symmetrical, 5-parted, tubular with spreading petal lobes, to 0.9 x 1 cm, fragrant; inflorescence of branched clusters, May-Aug.

Apocynum androsaemifolium. By W.H. Wagner. Copyright © 2017 University of Michigan Herbarium. U. of Michigan Herbarium – herbarium.lsa.umich.edu (Accessed 8/2017)
Fruit dry, hollow pods in pairs, linear, to 20 cm long, splitting open to release plumed seeds, to 0.3 cm long, pointed at both ends; wind dispersed.
Wetland status: UPL.
Frequency in NYC: Very infrequent.
Origin: Native.
Habitat: Open, dry, woods, fields.