If you have any plant in your gardens, you MUST also have some form of Asclepias. These plants are excellent pollinator attractors and are lifesaver for the Monarch Butterfly in particular. Asclepias incarnata is also used medicinally much like the A. tuberosa is, but there is also suspicion that they should not be. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by bees, and insects. The plant is self-fertile.
Quantity: 20 seeds
Growing Details
Zone: 3-6
Height: 4-5 ft Spread: 2-3 ft
Bloom Time: July-August
Sow the seeds in the greenhouse in early spring, though stored seed might need 2 - 3 weeks cold stratification (in your refrigerator or freezer for two or three weeks or more).
Note: Plants have deep taproots so avoid transplanting once established. Foliage emerges later in the spring.
