Asclepias perennis

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Found in low wet woods, cypress swamps, lake and pond margins, slow streams, and wet ditches.Like all members of the Asclepias genus, it is a larval host plant for Monarch, Queen and Soldier butterflies. Swamp milkweed works well in mixed butterfly and wildflower gardens planted along pond edges or similar moist sites. It also does well in a container.

Similar plants:

• Asclepias curassavica (Milkweed, Butterfly Weed, Tropical Milkweed)
• Asclepias incarnata (Swamp Milkweed, Rose Milkweed, Swamp Silkweed)
• Asclepias oenotheroides (Zizotes Milkweed, Longhorn Milkweed, Side-cluster Milkweed, Primrose Milkweed, Lindheimer's Milkweed)
• Asclepias sp. (Milkweed)
• Asclepias tuberosa (Milkweed, Flame Weed, Butterfly Weed, Gay Butterflies, Pleurisy Root)
• Gomphocarpus physocarpus, Asclepias physocarpa (Baloonplant, Cotton Bush, Swan Plant, Balloon Plant, Family Jewels Milkweed Tree)