Date: 04/05/2001

Number: 1

The blooms on the Asclepias viridis seem to be peaking this week in and around Victoria. I left school this afternoon and drove several miles along roads on the east side of Victoria and could always see bloom clusers out one side or the other. These were in coastal bermuda patches and in the valley of the bar ditches within the city limits and along two miles of US59 north of US87. The crop of A. viridis then gradually thins to the southeast along US87. The best count was forty stems with twenty-seven of them blooming inside a six foot circle. Asclepias asperula, northwest of Victoria, and Asclepias oenotheroides and Asclepias linearis, southeast of Victoria, should be nearing the bloom stage. http://asclepias.homestead.com

Victoria, TX

Latitude: 28.8 Longitude: -97

Observed by: Harlen E.
Contact Observer

The observer's e-mail address will not be disclosed.
Contact will be made through a web-based form.