another plant ID please

[randydrivesabus]

eventually this plant produces thin beanlike pods that contain fluffy seeds when dry.





stems are red.

[Scadsobees]

I'm just guessing from your description, but is it a type of milkweed?

http://www.monarchsacrossga.org/MAGmilkweed_in_ga.htm

Poke Milkweed
Swamp Milkweed

[Joseph Clemens]

Sure looks like:  Asclepias exaltata

[MrILoveTheAnts]

The flowers look completely wrong. It is not a milkweed. Milkweed flowers look fanged and have the flower peddles bend back.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v735/mrilovetheants/Bees%202008/BeeMilkweed.jpg

What we're seeing above has flowers in little cups, similar to blueberries. But clearly not as they form pods and send off hairy airborne seeds. I have no idea what it is.

[randydrivesabus]

the leaves resemble some of those milkweed leaves. its fragrant. butterflies love it as well as bumblebees and honey bees.

[Jessaboo]

I am pretty certain your plant is dogbane. Technically Apocynum cannabinum. It looks very similar to milkweed (monarchs can even be fooled occasionally) but as MrAnts notes, it does not have the right flower for milkweed.

Check out this link and see if you can make a positive ID.

http://www.primitiveways.com/hemp_dogbane.html

- Jess

[qa33010]

   Except for the seed pods you described I was thinking of Indian Hemp.  The sap is milky white and instead of seed pods I believe the Indian Hemp has berries.  That's what I have in my notebook anyway.  Just a thought.

[Joseph Clemens]

Okay, I'll definitely change my opinion to: Apocynum cannabinum.

[randydrivesabus]

It looks like Jess might have got it. I will see if theres sap when the leaves are broken.

[Scadsobees]

Well, shucks, if monarchs can be fooled by the real thing, then I don't feel so bad about being fooled by a picture!!

[randydrivesabus]

i didn't see any sap when i broke a leaf (maybe my reading glasses were called for :roll:) but when i broke a stem there was white sap.