| Description | A native Milkweed preferring the damp areas of the landscape. |
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| Pronunciation | (as-KLEE-pi-as)(in-kar-NAY-ta) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Wild Flowers |
| Hardiness Zone | 5 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | moist to wet |
| Soil & Site | native to wetlands, shallow marshes, sedge meadows |
| Flowers | umbel clusters of red buds, 3/8", 5-parted, pale to dark pink flowers at the top of stems |
| Fruit | narrow seed pod filled with seeds, seeds attached to silky hairs |
| Leaves | lance shaped to linear leaves, short stalked, opposite, exude a milk sap |
| Stems | exude a milk sap |
| Roots | fiborous |
| Dimensions | 3-4 feet high |
| Propagation | seeds |
| Misc Facts | Asclepias tuberosa) honours the Greek god of healing Asclepius (Asklepios in Greek and Aesculapius in Latin) with reference to the plants’ medicinal properties. Incarnata means ‘flesh pink-coloured’.(www.plantlives.com) |
| Notes & Reference | #46-Wetland Plants and Plant Communities of Minnesota and Wisconsin (Eggers and Reed), #83-Favorite Wild Flowers, #100-Wildflowers of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest (Black and Judziewicz) |
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