Spreading Dogbane is a native wildflower with bright green leaves and small, attractive, white and pink, bell-shaped flowers. It is a 2-5 ft. widely branching, shrub-like perennial with opposite leaves and groups of flowers near the branch tips. The flowers’ fragrance is reminiscent of lilac. It grows erect with many diffusing purplish stems, tough, fibrous bark and spreading by underground rhizomes. It has a fast growth rate. Its dark green leaves appear as pointed ovals, 2-4 in (6-10 cm) long. The sweetly scented white to pink bell shaped flowers bloom in small clusters from the stem tips, petals distinctively curve backwards. Spreading dogbane blooms during June-August. It is especially attractive in the fall with yellow leaves and reddish stems. It is common and widespread across most of the United States, Canada, and NE Mexico.