White Milkweed

Asclepias perennis

Size: 1g availability

Flower
Max size: 3’ tall x 1’ wide

Aquatic, Very moist
Loam, Muck, Sand
Part Shade, Shade
No salt tolerance

This great wetland flower is a larval host to the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), queen butterfly (Danaus gilippus), and soldier butterfly, (Danaus eresimus). If a most bushy growth habit is desired, you can prune it early in the season to encourage it to branch and bush instead of its normal straight-up habit. It blooms all summer with white flowers and goes dormant in the winter. It is not edible.