diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c85b31c1a0..97085839cd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 
 - Added a `GraphClassifier` task ([#73](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/lightning-flash/pull/73))
 
+- Added the option to pass `pretrained` as a string to `SemanticSegmentation` to change pretrained weights to load from `segmentation-models.pytorch` ([#587](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/lightning-flash/pull/587))
+
 - Added support for `field` parameter for loadng JSON based datasets in text tasks. ([#585](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/lightning-flash/pull/585))
 
 ### Changed
diff --git a/docs/source/reference/semantic_segmentation.rst b/docs/source/reference/semantic_segmentation.rst
index 3f95662c75..863dff2550 100644
--- a/docs/source/reference/semantic_segmentation.rst
+++ b/docs/source/reference/semantic_segmentation.rst
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Here's the structure:
 
 Once we've downloaded the data using :func:`~flash.core.data.download_data`, we create the :class:`~flash.image.segmentation.data.SemanticSegmentationData`.
 We select a pre-trained ``mobilenet_v3_large`` backbone with an ``fpn`` head to use for our :class:`~flash.image.segmentation.model.SemanticSegmentation` task and fine-tune on the CARLA data.
-We then use the trained :class:`~flash.image.segmentation.model.SemanticSegmentation` for inference.
+We then use the trained :class:`~flash.image.segmentation.model.SemanticSegmentation` for inference. You can check the available pretrained weights for the backbones like this `SemanticSegmentation.available_pretrained_weights("resnet18")`.
 Finally, we save the model.
 Here's the full example:
 
diff --git a/flash/image/segmentation/backbones.py b/flash/image/segmentation/backbones.py
index 15047477f4..30690cfaf1 100644
--- a/flash/image/segmentation/backbones.py
+++ b/flash/image/segmentation/backbones.py
@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ def _load_smp_backbone(backbone: str, **_) -> str:
         short_name = encoder_name
         if short_name.startswith("timm-"):
             short_name = encoder_name[5:]
+
+        available_weights = smp.encoders.encoders[encoder_name]["pretrained_settings"].keys()
         SEMANTIC_SEGMENTATION_BACKBONES(
-            partial(_load_smp_backbone, backbone=encoder_name), name=short_name, namespace="image/segmentation"
+            partial(_load_smp_backbone, backbone=encoder_name),
+            name=short_name,
+            namespace="image/segmentation",
+            weights_paths=available_weights,
         )
diff --git a/flash/image/segmentation/heads.py b/flash/image/segmentation/heads.py
index e870f3e1c3..294c7f36d9 100644
--- a/flash/image/segmentation/heads.py
+++ b/flash/image/segmentation/heads.py
@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 from functools import partial
-from typing import Callable
+from typing import Union
+
+from torch import nn
 
 from flash.core.registry import FlashRegistry
 from flash.core.utilities.imports import _SEGMENTATION_MODELS_AVAILABLE
@@ -33,17 +35,19 @@
     def _load_smp_head(
         head: str,
         backbone: str,
-        pretrained: bool = True,
+        pretrained: Union[bool, str] = True,
         num_classes: int = 1,
         in_channels: int = 3,
         **kwargs,
-    ) -> Callable:
+    ) -> nn.Module:
 
         if head not in SMP_MODELS:
             raise NotImplementedError(f"{head} is not implemented! Supported heads -> {SMP_MODELS.keys()}")
 
         encoder_weights = None
-        if pretrained:
+        if isinstance(pretrained, str):
+            encoder_weights = pretrained
+        elif pretrained:
             encoder_weights = "imagenet"
 
         return smp.create_model(
diff --git a/flash/image/segmentation/model.py b/flash/image/segmentation/model.py
index 59c5b4cc77..ddb50fdd47 100644
--- a/flash/image/segmentation/model.py
+++ b/flash/image/segmentation/model.py
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ def __init__(
         backbone_kwargs: Optional[Dict] = None,
         head: str = "fpn",
         head_kwargs: Optional[Dict] = None,
-        pretrained: bool = True,
+        pretrained: Union[bool, str] = True,
         loss_fn: Optional[Callable] = None,
         optimizer: Type[torch.optim.Optimizer] = torch.optim.AdamW,
         metrics: Union[Metric, Callable, Mapping, Sequence, None] = None,
@@ -156,6 +156,16 @@ def forward(self, x) -> torch.Tensor:
 
         return out
 
+    @classmethod
+    def available_pretrained_weights(cls, backbone: str):
+        result = cls.backbones.get(backbone, with_metadata=True)
+        pretrained_weights = None
+
+        if "weights_paths" in result["metadata"]:
+            pretrained_weights = list(result["metadata"]["weights_paths"])
+
+        return pretrained_weights
+
     @staticmethod
     def _ci_benchmark_fn(history: List[Dict[str, Any]]):
         """
diff --git a/tests/image/segmentation/test_heads.py b/tests/image/segmentation/test_heads.py
index cf50ed5de5..f6bfb6fb24 100644
--- a/tests/image/segmentation/test_heads.py
+++ b/tests/image/segmentation/test_heads.py
@@ -11,12 +11,16 @@
 # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
+import unittest.mock
+
 import pytest
 import torch
 
 from flash.core.utilities.imports import _SEGMENTATION_MODELS_AVAILABLE
+from flash.image.segmentation import SemanticSegmentation
 from flash.image.segmentation.backbones import SEMANTIC_SEGMENTATION_BACKBONES
 from flash.image.segmentation.heads import SEMANTIC_SEGMENTATION_HEADS
+from tests.helpers.utils import _IMAGE_TESTING
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
@@ -37,3 +41,26 @@ def test_semantic_segmentation_heads_registry(head):
     if isinstance(res, dict):
         res = res["out"]
     assert res.shape[1] == 10
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif(not _IMAGE_TESTING, reason="image libraries aren't installed.")
+@unittest.mock.patch("flash.image.segmentation.heads.smp")
+def test_pretrained_weights(mock_smp):
+    mock_smp.create_model = unittest.mock.MagicMock()
+    available_weights = SemanticSegmentation.available_pretrained_weights("resnet18")
+    backbone = SEMANTIC_SEGMENTATION_BACKBONES.get("resnet18")()
+    SEMANTIC_SEGMENTATION_HEADS.get("unet")(backbone=backbone, num_classes=10, pretrained=True)
+
+    kwargs = {
+        'arch': 'unet',
+        'classes': 10,
+        'encoder_name': 'resnet18',
+        'in_channels': 3,
+        "encoder_weights": "imagenet"
+    }
+    mock_smp.create_model.assert_called_with(**kwargs)
+
+    for weight in available_weights:
+        SEMANTIC_SEGMENTATION_HEADS.get("unet")(backbone=backbone, num_classes=10, pretrained=weight)
+        kwargs["encoder_weights"] = weight
+        mock_smp.create_model.assert_called_with(**kwargs)
diff --git a/tests/image/segmentation/test_model.py b/tests/image/segmentation/test_model.py
index 68fece463f..5a45226641 100644
--- a/tests/image/segmentation/test_model.py
+++ b/tests/image/segmentation/test_model.py
@@ -155,3 +155,8 @@ def test_serve():
 def test_load_from_checkpoint_dependency_error():
     with pytest.raises(ModuleNotFoundError, match=re.escape("'lightning-flash[image]'")):
         SemanticSegmentation.load_from_checkpoint("not_a_real_checkpoint.pt")
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif(not _IMAGE_TESTING, reason="image libraries aren't installed.")
+def test_available_pretrained_weights():
+    assert SemanticSegmentation.available_pretrained_weights("resnet18") == ['imagenet', 'ssl', 'swsl']