Date: 03/07/2009

Number: 1

Altus drove me along about sixty miles of roads in Calhoun and Victoria Counties today on our first dedicated look for native milkweeds out in the wild. In the southern part of Calhoun County, east of Seadrift along TX185, we found Asclepias viridis from sprouts to two stems with buds, and A. oenotheroides in multiple clumps, thick in some locations. Along CR1689, closer to Port Lavaca, we found A. viridis from sprouts to multiple stems with well formed blooms. All these plants were within six feet of the pavement and coming up thru the thatch from last fall's mowing where there was a bit of moisture ... nothing is growing farther from pavement, nothing! We found no milkweed at any other location on this trip ... the ground is dry and hard, these other locations were coastal and sandy. Did not see a single butterfly of any kind. No eggs, no larval activity on the many milkweeds checked!

Port Lavaca, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -96.7

Observed by: Harlen E.
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