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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Narrow-Leaved Milkweed

Now at the end of September...



...the seedpods are bursting open.



For comparison, the same plant one month ago...


...in flower, even as some pods were forming.

It began like this: back at the end of July, flowers were first opening...


...no idea what the outlandish orange mites were about.
Posted by David at 8:04 PM

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