Date: 02/28/2008

Number: 1

I drove out west of Port Lavaca on some of the Farm to Market roads to check for early sprouts of native milkweed and was happily surprised. I found sprouts of both Asclepias viridis and A. oenotheroides, both of which support many larvae of the Monarch remigrants in March and April in Texas. The viridis had horizontal, red shoots to almost six inches (compare to a month later in 2002 at: http://asclepias.homestead.com/viridis02.html ). The oenotheroides had fuzzy, double shoots, some to six inches ( http://asclepias.homestead.com/oenotheroides02.html ). It has been wet and warm and the milkweed is on time for the remigrants, hope there is no late freeze in south Texas.

Port Lavaca, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -96.7

Observed by: Harlen E.
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