Date: 05/10/2018
Number: 1
Yesterday I reported the first sightings of common, prairie & swamp milkweed in my yard. And I believe yesterday was the first day they were up.
But I was very surprised today when I saw a volunteer common milkweed in the back of my driveway that's already about 9 inches tall! I don't know when it came up. I don't know how I missed it, since I was cleaning up that bed recently. I can only guess that I was looking for little buds coming up, and not recognizable plants.
The one in the picture showed up amid my weeds last year for the first time. This year it has a few extra stems, plus a small neighbor who is probably attached by a root.
I'm still expecting over 100 more plants to pop up over the next week in my yard. But I won't report any more of them. I just thought today's discovery was note-worthy, because all the rest that I saw yesterday were very small.
I will be looking in other places where I was looking for eggs last year, though, to see when their milkweed shows up.
Round Lake Park, IL
Latitude: 42.4 Longitude: -88.1
Observed by: Susan
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