Date: 02/22/2009

Number: 1

Yesterday afternoon, Feb. 22, 2009, Kay and I checked their ranch [south end of Quemado Valley, 15 mi. N of Eagle Pass on the banks of the Rio Grande] for milkweed and found about 6 plants of A. oenotheroides (hierba de zizotes) between 4" and 2" in height. Only one plant had multiple ramettes (the 4" plant). There have been a couple of frosts this winter, one of which was Saturday night, and we could tell the frost had nipped the curassavica in her flower pots and a couple of the natives that weren't protected down in the grass. All plants were where they get occasional water from her watering her yard. No plants up out in the fields yet.

Courtesy of Monarch Watch

Eagle Pass, TX

Latitude: 28.6 Longitude: -100.3

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