Asclepias incarnata|swamp milkweed|Asclepiadaceae

Asclepias incarnata.Frank Bramley. Copyright © 2014 New England Wild Flower Society.gobotany.newenglandwild.org

Asclepias incarnata is a perennial herb to 1.5 m tall, stems leafy, branched above, stems single or clumped, sap milky.

Leaves opposite, to 20 cm long, lance-shaped, tip pointed, base blunt to slightly lobed.

Asclepias Incarnata (swamp milkweed).close-up.Richard Payne. Falmouth, MA, Great Sippewissett Marsh.JPG

Flowers pink about 0.8 cm, in umbrella-shaped clusters insect pollinated, July- Aug.

Asclepias incarnata fruit and plumed seeds. 2008 © Peter M. Dziuk .Minnesota Wildflowers. minnesotawildflowers.info (12/2014).

Fruit dry pods, narrow, to 9 cm, long pointing upwards, finely hairy, splitting open length-wise to release flat, brown seeds with white plumb, wind dispersed through autumn. Plants occasionally fed upon by Chrysomelid beetles (Labidomera clivicollis) and larvae of monarch butterflies (Wilbur 1976; Bhowmik and Bandeen 1976; Dillon and Dillon, 1972).

Wetland status: OBL.

Frequency in NYC: Occasional.

Origin: Native.

Habitat Open, undisturbed wet areas, marshes, tolerate soil pH 5-8.

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