Date: 02/10/2012

Number: 1

Altus and I went on safari out to our pasture in northwestern DeWitt County about 60 miles east-southeast of San Antonio this afternoon to do some early milkweed snooping ... within a couple of minutes of opening the gate to the pasture, Altus was giving the thumbs up! She walked and I drove over about twenty acres of our pasture and we found one of the central native milkweeds, Asclepias asperula, up all over the place from just sprouting to nine inch stems almost blooming. Some of these plants must have sprouted the last of January with all the warm weather we had in January. We have never found asperula before February 14th before ... but you can get the sensation we went with the expectation of finding at least a few sprouts! Now to see if some coastal A. viridis might be sprouting soon ... photos at 11:00!

Westhoff, TX

Latitude: 29.1 Longitude: -97.4

Observed by: Harlen E.
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