We’re big fans of Asclepias and have three species growing in our garden. We have a few varieties of Asclepias curassavica, a tender perennial native to the Caribbean and Central and South America often referred to as blood flower. We have several Asclepias tuberosa, butterfly weed, a hardy perennial native to our region. We just bought a few plants of a variety of Asclepias incarnata called ‘Ice Ballet’. The species is generally pale pink but this variety is a creamy white. It’s also a native to the area and is known as swamp milkweed. These will go in a spot that gets very wet when it rains, as these don’t mind that and there are a lot of things that won’t grow there.
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Asclepias incarnata ‘Ice Ballet’
Categories: Flowers and Plants
Tags: Asclepias, Asclepias incarnata, Hardy Perennial, Herbaceous Perennial, Ice Ballet, Milkweed, Native Plants, Swamp Milkweed, White
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Tiger Swallowtail on Milkweed
I stopped at the Croyden Creak Nature Center again this afternoon. I took a picture of Joe Pye weed here two weeks ago (see Wednesday, June 16, 2021) and wanted to see if it had started to bloom. It really hadn’t but it’s getting close. I walked around and took a few pictures, anyway, including a few of this eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly (Papilio glaucus) enjoying the swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata). There was also a nice buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) in bloom. It has spherical clusters of tiny flowers that like little pincushions.
Categories: Creatures, Flowers and Plants
Tags: Asclepias, Asclepias incarnata, Butterfly, Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Insect, Insecta, Lepidoptera, Milkweed, Papilio, Papilio glaucus, Swallowtail, Swamp Milkweed, Tiger Swallowtail
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