Date: 05/14/2001

Number: 1

Native, wild milkweed with mature seed pods! About ten percent of the Asclepias asperula in DeWitt County now has empty seed pods that matured on the stem the past week. The same is true for the A. viridis in Victoria and Calhoun Counties. The A. oenotheroides is full bloom and the first tiny seed pods should be showing over the next week. Even with the very cold February and March, it has been a good spring for these milkweeds from the mid coast of Texas west towards San Antonio. The milkweed trails we followed this spring begin south of Houston with viridis, changes to asperula west of Victoria, and then continues west towards San Antonio. There are still a few fresh looking monarchs appearing from DeWitt County east to Calhoun County along the coast.

Victoria, TX

Latitude: 28.8 Longitude: -97

Observed by: Harlen E.
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