Date: 04/17/2022

Number: 1

Horse/Poison/Whorled Milkweed emerging from 1"-2" thick litter and ~2"-3" tall in this image. A few emerging stems were in the 4"-6" range. It is likely that the first above-ground emergence occurred perhaps two-three weeks prior at this site along an irrigation ditch from the Rio Grande. It is near La Llorna City Park, Las Cruces, NM. Milkweed stands ~1.5 miles further south on the bank of the Rio Grande, and with a litter layer 8"-12" deep (mostly from Bermudagrass), were not yet showing milkweed stem/leaf emergence when a few old stem bases from 2021 were exposed.

Las Cruces, NM

Latitude: 32.3 Longitude: -106.8

Observed by: James
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