I am pretty sure that they come up a little bit later than many natives, although not as late as milkweed. Notwithstanding that one of my Culver's Root plants is about 10 years old, every year I am afraid that it didn't make it. Don't give up at least until the milkweed shows up.

No trace of them here yet, mxk; wouldn't be expecting so.

Yes: they’re definitely one of the later-emerging perennials in my garden. Usually right before Asclepias.

I’m just getting wisps of emerging green here in MD so I would think it’s even later for you.

Mine are about 4-5 inches high now...they've been visible about 1.5-2 weeks. My asclepias syriaca emerged only this week (since it was mentioned) and is perhaps an inch high.

Update - mine are just poking through the soil as of today. NJ is probably a week ahead of MI, so look for yours about the 18 -20 of April. Now I'm just waiting for the weeds: milkweed, ironweed, Joe Pye weed.

I was looking for this thread to say mine is about an inch and a half tall. So exciting.

Thanks, all!

I am Zone 5b IL. Nothing showing here yet.

Mine is up about 6 inches now -- I wasn't so much worried about in terms of it giving up the ghost; rather, I couldn't remember where exactly in that area I planted it and didn't want to trample anything that was just poking through or accidentally dig into it :0/

A cold spring caused it to take longer than usual to get going. Here is a picture of our established clump...mid may and at most 3" in height: