Tuesday, July 3, 2012

More Wildflowers

Common Milkweed - Asclepias Syriaca.


We've a nice crop of this native growing all over the place.  Food the a couple generations of Monarch butterfly larvae.

This plant has an odd pollination system.  There are sacs of pollen that become ensnared on the legs of insects - and the insect ends-up inserting the sacs into other plants as it makes its rounds.

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