Swamp milkweed is a favored food of monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) larva. Swamp milkweed is also an important food source for the queen butterfly (Danaus glippus) larva. Various other butterflies and hummingbirds consu...

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Swamp milkweed is a favored food of monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) larva. Swamp milkweed is also an important food source for the queen butterfly (Danaus glippus) larva. Various other butterflies and hummingbirds consume nectar from the flowers.

  • Milkweed Incarnata Seeds - Swamp Milkweed is a tall plant with fragrant, showy clusters of pink and light purple flowers. Grown in the Mid-West and East Coast down to Florida
  • Attracts Monarch Butterflies, Bees, and other Pollinators. Perennial.
  • Plant in Full Sun, 1/4 inch deep and keep watered until plant starts to grow. Swamp Milkweed tolerates heavy clay soils and is very deer-resistant.
  • It does well in landscape plantings with moist soil and in plantings near bodies of water.
  • Marde Ross & Company has been a Licensed California Nursery since 1985.

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