It isn't a milkweed I am familiar with, and I've grown many of the milkweeds that can be grown in Michigan. You might need to wait for blooms to get a better identification.

Martha

I don't recognize it either. FYI: White sap leaking from leaves does not make a milkweed. Dogbane is a plant many people mistake for milkweed because it looks similar and bleeds white liquid but monarchs cannot live on it.

Does it have the big fuzzy seed pods too?? Maybe that's what it is!?

This article has pictures of all the milkweeds in the Asclepias genus that are found in Ohio (there are two other milkweeds in another genus but they are vines). A Michigan milkweed you won't see in the article is showy milkweed but that is found in just one area of the Upper Peninsula along Lake Michigan.

http://floraofohio.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-guide-to-milkweeds-of-ohio.html

About dogbane: People mistake it for common milkweed. Neither look like the plant you have.

I know! I can't find any milkweed that looks like this so I'm assuming I took the wrong plant from her garden or wherever she got it from was wrong do you know of any plants that look like this ? When I took it it had big seed pods with fluff in them and the stems and leaves have milky white sap my mom says she remembers them blooming pink possibly lol

Like I said before, the closest match I can find is the A. longifolia,but the pics of it I've seen all seem to have much narrower leaves.Beautiful purple flowers it has.Hope you keep this until it blooms so we all know for sure.It looks like it's sending up a bloom spike and the spike doesn't look very milkweed- like but if you can just wait until it flowers and then post another pic that would be awesome.It might be some other Jewel or maybe not.

"Like I said before?" Is this being discussed elsewhere?

A. longifolia is not all leafy at the base like the plant in the picture. And now that I say that, it occurs to me that a full grown A. longifolia has less leaves than the pictured plant.

I'm going to keep til it blooms I'm very curious I will post pics when it does!!

OK so the pic I posted is a clump of about 5 actually thinking maybe an individual pic of one could be more identifying bc it doesn't look so bushy as just one

I don't know what it could be? If it truly has milky sap, then that really throws me off.Otherwise it could even be a liatris for all I know.Looks like it's preparing to bloom,whatever it is.

I know! That's confusing me too be I keep trying to look up plants w this description w milky sap and I'm getting nothing that looks similar to me aghh guess we'll just wait and see I'm so impatient tho

So am I, so please post another pic when it's fowering so we can all have some kind of closure lol.

Lol! I will!!

Look at Asclepias fascicularis and Asclepias speciosa. I have one of each and they look similar, though the fascicularis is bushier and the speciosa is more upright. I wasn't sure it the speciosa was just a smaller plant of the fascicularis when I bought it, so I bought one to have it. Neither have bloomed yet.

Hmm they look similar just more bushy and more like compact than them I kinda hope it's the showy one so pretty!!

I bought one of each of 5 different varieties and planted seed for some others. It will be interesting to ssee what I have in a couple of years. I wish they grew faster and bloomed sooner. Impatient this year. LOL

I am always impatient!! Lol I hope mine bloom!! Lol

So I was checking my other "special" milkweeds and noticed that one that is very different from the other two I was talking about earlier was also labeled asclepias speciosa -- which appears to be showy milkweed -- and it looks like the taller, thicker, almost furry looking leaf plant. So that leavves me thinking that the only clue I have on what yours might be is the fascicularis.

A. fascicularis would be the closest match as far as appearance goes.It is native to the southwest, mainly California, so the question is could it survive in a zone 6 climate with cold winter's?

I hope so!!!

That was one of the species on the list that I didn't consider because of where it grows.Still hope you take another pic when it flowers.

Oh believe me I will I really hope it's milkweed lol I keep checking it everyday to see if there is any blooms starting lol

Omg nooo I hope not! It does look ALOT like it tho more than anything else I've found :( do you know if hey have a hollow stem??

Euphorbia lathyris also has the large seed pods you mentioned. Sounds like the sap is something to be avoided.

Don't get the latex in your eyes. I'm not sure if the stems are hollow,but I don't think they are.

Ughhh I so hope that's not what it is!

I think your right about it :( I'm finding some things online saying hollow stem and some don't say anything about the stem just the sap, ugh I'm still hopefully wishing for a milkweed but it's looking more like the euphoirbia more I look it up

In the past I wanted to grow Euphorbia lathyris, especially when voles were tunneling in my yard and eating prized plant roots,but I never got around to it.It's a cool plant in its own right.No biggy,you can just go get a nice real milkweed like Butterfly Weed for cheap. I was planning on getting one more A. Tuberosa myself to create a little drift off it with the 2 others I already have.Saw someone with grow milkweed bumber stickers on their car yesterday.Would have loved talking to them, but we were on the road.

So did it flower? What did it turn out to be?

It hasn't flowerd yet but here's some updated pics new growth of buds along the stem