Swamp Azalea

Swamp Azalea is a late-blooming native azalea of wetland habitats, flowering in June and July after most other native azaleas have finished — filling swamps and bog edges with intensely sweet-spicy fragrance that carries for considerable distances on warm summer evenings. The flowers are white to pale pink with a long, sticky, glandular tube that traps short-tongued insects, ensuring that only long-tongued pollinators like hummingbirds and swallowtail butterflies successfully retrieve nectar. It is highly tolerant of wet, flooded soils and is diagnostic of acidic wetlands.