Intro: Erect, often leaning perennial of wet pine flatwoods.

Stems: Stems stout, unbranched, hairy; leaks milky sap when bruised.

Leaves: Leaves opposite, mostly sessile, oblong to narrowly lance-shaped, up to 2 3/4 in. long, somewhat white-waxy and slightly hairy.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in small terminal and upper axillary umbels, greenish-white, about 3/4 in. long and appearing more rounded than flowers of other milkweeds, with 5 strongly reflexed corolla lobes (greenish) and 5 "hoods" (greenish-white) that arch over the central structure of fused anthers and style.

Fruits: Fruit a follicle containing tufted seeds.

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Height: 1-3 ft.

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description: Erect, often leaning perennial of wet pine flatwoods.

stems: Stems stout, unbranched, hairy; leaks milky sap when bruised.

leaves: Leaves opposite, mostly sessile, oblong to narrowly lance-shaped, up to 2 3/4 in. long, somewhat white-waxy and slightly hairy.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in small terminal and upper axillary umbels, greenish-white, about 3/4 in. long and appearing more rounded than flowers of other milkweeds, with 5 strongly reflexed corolla lobes (greenish) and 5 "hoods" (greenish-white) that arch over the central structure of fused anthers and style.

fruits: Fruit a follicle containing tufted seeds.

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