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Close-up on pink swamp milkweed flower, also known as rose milkweed or rose milkflower. This perennial plant blooms in summer Royalty Free Stock Photo

Pink Butterfly Flower is also known as swamp milkweed in the garden. Royalty Free Stock Photo

Monarch butterfly feeding on a pink swamp milkweed flower Royalty Free Stock Photo

Close-up view of emerging rosy pink blossoms and buds on a swamp milkweed plant Royalty Free Stock Photo

Pink flower of the Swamp Milkweed plant Royalty Free Stock Photo

A Swamp Milkweed plant full of blooming pink flower heads by a lake. Royalty Free Stock Photo

Swamp milkweed is an attractive flowering perennial that is native to the swamps and other wet areas of North America. The swamp milkweed plant is technically poisonous to humans and other mammals. Asclepias incarnata, the swamp milkweed, rose milkweed, rose milkflower, swamp silkweed, or white Indian hemp, is an herbaceous perennial plant species native to North America. It grows in damp through wet soils and also is cultivated as a garden plant for its flowers, which attract butterflies and other pollinators with nectar. Like most other milkweeds, it has latex containing toxic chemicals, a characteristic that repels insects and other herbivorous animals.