Bring your garden to life with Asclepias ‘Cinderella’, a stunning swamp milkweed known for its fragrant rosy-pink blooms and its essential role as a host plant for Monarch butterflies.

This compact, garden-friendly variety produces clusters of sweetly scented flowers that attract pollinators all summer long while supporting the full life cycle of Monarch caterpillars.

Why Gardeners Love ‘Cinderella’

• Essential Monarch butterfly host plant
• Fragrant clusters of rosy-pink blooms
• Attracts bees, butterflies & hummingbirds
• More compact & tidy than wild milkweed
• Thrives in full sun & adaptable conditions

What You’ll Receive

• Quantity: 1 live plant
• Size: 3.5” pot (well-rooted)

Plant Details

• Botanical Name: Asclepias incarnata ‘Cinderella’
• Common Name: Swamp Milkweed
• Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial
• Height: 24–36 inches
• Bloom Color: Rosy pink
• Bloom Season: Summer
• Hardiness Zones: 3–9

Care Instructions

• Light: Full sun
• Water: Moderate; prefers moist soil but adaptable
• Soil: Well-drained; tolerates wetter conditions than most perennials
• Maintenance: Deadhead for extended blooms; cut back in early spring

Best planted in groups for a fuller pollinator display

Perfect For

• Monarch butterfly gardens
• Pollinator-friendly landscapes
• Cottage & native plant gardens
• Borders & naturalized areas
• Rain gardens & moist soil locations

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.