Common Name: swamp milkweedScientific Name: Asclepias incarnata L.Family Name: Asclepiadaceae - Milkweed FamilyIdentification NotesLife Cyclenative perennial, reproducing by seed and creeping roots Stemsupright, sturdy, single or multiple, branching above, green or brown sometimes purplish, mostly smooth and hairless with vertical bands of hairs extends down each side of stem below leaf junction, milky sap Leavesopposite sometimes whorled, lanceolate tapering to point with wavy edges, narrow, short petiole, keeled along mibvein, veiny below with leaf veins at sharp angle with midvein Flowers5-petaled, pink to rose-purple with crown sometimes cream, petals reflexed downward, fragrant, horns longer than hoods, axillary and terminal clusters Seed Podsupright pod, slender, tapering at both ends, fine pubescence, seed flat with tuft of silky hairs