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Asclepias incarnata
 

     Swamp Milkweed

Asclepiadaceae

 

 

 

 

 

Fruits.

  Fruit Type:  Follicle

  Fruiting Period:  Oct

  Flowering Period:  Jun - Aug
      

 

 
Seeds.

  Color:  Shades of brown

  Size:  6 x 10 mm

  Shape:  Oval, flattened

  Surface Features:  Smooth with tuft of silky hairs; winged margins

  Scarification:  Not required

  Stratification:  30 days

 

 

Seedlings.

  Cotyledons:  Oval with entire margins

  Leaf arrangement:  Opposite

  Leaves:  Simple, elongated oval, petiole, entire margins, no hairs prominent midvein