Date: 03/23/2003

Number: 1

After finding eggs in high numbers on Asclepias asperula in a pasture in northwestern DeWitt County, moved forty-five miles east-southeast to the outskirts of Victoria to check the Asclepias viridis. Found many eggs (loading about as on the asperula except the viridis plants are smaller), a few hatchlings and two monarchs wandering by. Some photos to help identify both of these native milkweeds out in the "wild" in Texas right now. Asperula has "fuzzy" leaves and stems ... ranges might overlap in some central Texas counties.
http://asclepias.homestead.com/viridis03b.html
http://asclepias.homestead.com/asperula03b.html

Victoria, TX

Latitude: 28.8 Longitude: -97

Observed by: Harlen E.
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