The blossoms told me it was a milkweed.
But the overall plant looks totally different.
Skinny leaves, tall and skinny plant.
I left the color tone warm cuz the background was prettier that way.
I liked how the blossoms look like they sit on a pedestal.
npwrc
Whorled Milkweed (Asclepias verticillata)
Asclepiadaceae (The Milkweed Family)
"Leaves of this milkweed are about two inches long and very narrow; they occur in whorls of two to four along the full length of the stem. As in all milkweeds, the flowers are clustered into umbels. Botanists define an umbel as a cluster of flowers in which all the flower stalks (pedicels) arise from the same point."
"The specific epithet verticillata means "whorled" in botanical Latin."
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