Family: Milkweed
Season: summer

Last Update: 05Dec97

(Jul-96; Mom/Dad)

(Jul-96; Danby Pond; blooms)

(Jul-96; Montezuma WR; Mom/Dad)

(Jul-96; Danby Pond; blooms)

(June-99; Lindsay-Parsons BioDiversivty Preserve; flower and residents)

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(Jul-96; W. Danby Pond; erect seedpods)

(Jul-96; W. Danby Biodiveristy Preserver; erect seedpods)

(Jul-96; W. Danby Biodiveristy Preserver; seedpods and aphids!)

Swamp Milkweed

Found in swamps and ditches where reliably water found. Clusters of red-pink blooms - very much like Common Milkweed but redder. If standing in water, probably Swamp Milkweed, if in dry field, probably Common Milkweed. Leaves narrow lance-shaped, paired and not-thick. Seedpods different than Common Milkweed, being thinner and held erect on terminal stems.