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USDA PLANTS Range Map
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Sweetly scented clusters of rose-pink flowers bloom in summer. Butterflies find the faint vanilla fragrance irresistible, and monarch larvae feed on the foliage. Grows naturally in swamps and wet meadows but also grows well in the garden and grows well in poorly drained clay soil. Part of our Monarch Cafe plant tag series.
VIDEO of female Baltimore oriole collecting fibers from the spent stems of marsh/swamp milkweed
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