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Asclepias exaltata - Poke Milkweed - 3" Pot

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Asclepias exaltata - Poke Milkweed - 3" Pot
Asclepias exaltata - Poke Milkweed - 3" Pot
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Light

Partial, Shade

Moisture

Medium to Medium-Dry

Bloom

Early Summer

Color

White

Height

4 FT

Poke Milkweed is tall for milkweeds, reaching up to five feet in height. It has rather large leaves and attractive drooping flower clusters. Compared to other milkweeds, Poke Milkweed flower clusters have fewer flowers which elegantly hang from dainty stalks, giving a fresh take on the classic milkweed look. In nature Poke Milkweed is found growing along forest edges and in forest clearings. It prefers rich, medium to moist soil and full to partial shade.

This plant attracts a diversity of pollinators, considered by the Xerces Society to be of special value to honeybees and native bees, especially bumblebees, as well as supporting conservation biological control. It is also a host plant for the monarch butterfly as well as the unexpected cycnia and the delicate cycnia. Like other milkweeds, Poke Milkweed is resistant to herbivory from deer and other mammals.

Asclepias exaltata - Poke Milkweed - 3" Pot

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