Swamp milkweed 'Red swamp'

Asclepias incarnata

How to grow Swamp milkweed 'Red swamp'

Growing Red swamp from seed

Transplanting Red swamp

Harvesting Red swamp

Red swamp folklore & trivia

During WWII the silky part attached to the seeds was used for life jackets.123 Milkweed is more bouyant then cork by 5 or 6 fold.123

Footnotes

1 Native Plant Society of Texas

2 Washington Post

3 “Your Country’s Armed Services Need Milkweed Floss: How You Can Help” :https://archive.org/stream/YourCountrysArmedServicesNeedMilkweedFlossHowYouCanHelp/YourCountrysArmedServicesNeedMilkweedFlossHowYouCanHelp_djvu.txt