Date: 03/03/2006

Number: 1

We saw our first fields of corn that had come up this week in the western part of Calhoun County today. This is usually a key that the local, native milkweeds might also have sprouted. Late this afternoon, we went to a site about five miles west of Port Lavaca that is easy to get to from the edge of the paved road and began a search for the two milkweeds that we see there later in the spring and summer each year. It didn't take long before we found, hidden among the other roadside weeds and grasses, several plants of Asclepias viridis and one A. oenotheroides. The largest viridis had a stem to just over six inches and the oenotherides was almost five inches tall. The way this milkweed looked and felt, the lack of rain in the state over the past few months will affect the quantity and quality of any early milkweed down here. Many sites in Texas north of us did get a good rain the past two weeks.

Port Lavaca, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -96.7

Observed by: Harlen E.
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