New Arrival Cinderella Swamp Milkweed

This is one of the most beautifulmilkweeds. Not the common dusty-dull rose-flowered farm weed, but areally beautiful red-flowered form with much more refined foliage andhabits. And like the orange-flowered Butterfly Weed, this one is amonarch magnet, great for butterfly gardens.

The milkweed family of North American plants is named Asclepias after Asclepias, the famous Greek God of Medicine, since the plants have long been used in herbal medicine.

This Asclepias, with its glowing red flowerheads, is best placed in a wet spot, or at least one that is wet part of the year, since that isits native habitat.

Native Range for Asclepias incarnata (Swamp Milkweed) – AL, AR, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD,ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC,SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WI, WV, WY.