Date: 04/15/2000

Number: 1

Altus and I took the botanist for DeWitt County to our pasture to help ID a milkweed, Asclepias viridiflora. One plant of 30 that we inspected will be blooming this week. The pasture has A. asperula that hosted early migrating monarch eggs and larvae, A. oenotheroides, more of a summer variety, and now A. viridiflora that supported some eggs and larvae. A. tuberosa grows within six miles and A. verticillata about twice as far away. DeWitt County has eight documented varities of Asclepiadaceae. We saw no eggs, no larvae, one monarch, SW to NE. Most of the migration may be past here ... then some next generation monarchs.

Westhoff, TX

Latitude: 29.1 Longitude: -97.4

Observed by: Harlen E.
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