Sunday, July 14, 2013

Wildflowers

Common Milkweed - Asclepias Syriaca.

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With more than several thousand species found throughout the world Wisconsin has thirteen of them.  No healing qualities to be ascribed to this plan - if you taste it your heart will do flip-flops and you'll get hot-flashes. 

In a symbiotic twist the Monarch butterfly lays its eggs on this plant and the caterpillar dines-upon it.  As a result the caterpillar becomes toxic and the birds leave it alone.

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