Four Leaved Milkweed Flower. Flowers are technically in loose umbels either upright or drooping from 1 to 3 umbels per plant light pink or cream colored nicely fragrant. Next pink flower next in dogbane family.
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Pale pink corolla lobes and white hoods 5 parted. From late spring to midsummer tiny fragrant white to pinkish flowers open from rosy buds. Whorls of 4 leaves at middle of stem.
Leaves ovate elliptical in whorls of four.
Upper and lower leaves on the plant are paired. Flowers may july. It is rare and protected in some new england states. Whorls of 4 leaves at middle of stem.
