Date: 02/28/2007

Number: 1

Asclepias viridis up along the Texas midcoast! After lunch, I drove out to a Farm Road about four miles west of Port Lavaca where we always find early A. viridis and sometimes A. oenotheroides. After walking along the barditch beside the road for a few minutes I was able to see Asclepias viridis poking up thru the thatch that had been laid down in the fall when the roadsides had been mowed by the county crews. The best plant was 2.5 inches tall with six leaves. We had a hard freeze on the 16th and the other sites we check are still showing no sprouts, but they had no protection to offer and it may be a few more days for them. The first two rows of counties along the coast from down here and the eastern half of Texas have had good rains but the western half of the state is a different story! West of San Antonio it is very, very dry.

Port Lavaca, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -96.7

Observed by: Harlen E.
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