milkweed

170d

My showy milkweed just bloomed, and yes, she's showing off.
#BloomScrolling #milkweed #wildflowers

A big ball of showy milkweed flowers; it's a cluster of star-shaped light pink flowers. Very geometrically pleasing.

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121d

#SilentSunday
#macro #wildflowers #nativeplants #milkweed #flowers #bloomscrolling #photography

Macro photograph of a cluster of tiny pink common milkweed flowers, held tightly together by the photographer. Each flower has five rounded, hollow, and very smooth pink petals, a black dot between each petal, and a whitish center with a pink star pattern. Each flower resembles a little piglet, with a round nose, small black eyes, and pink ears.

Photographie macro d'un amas de toutes petites fleurs roses de l'Asclépiade commune, tenues serrées les unes contre les autres par la photographe. Chacune a cinq pétales arrondis roses creux et très lisses, un point noir entre chaque pétale, et un centre blanchâtre avec un motif d'étoile rose. Chacun fleur rappelle un petit cochonnet, avec un nez rond, des petits yeux noirs et des oreilles roses.

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93d

#silentsunday #flowers #bloomscrolling #milkweed #nativeplants #gardening #monarch #insects #butterfly #photography

Close-up photograph of a monarch butterfly in the sun, orange and black, perched on a cluster of yellow-orange milkweed flowers, its wings folded back. Green foliage, other orange flowers, and brown wood mulch surround and are blurred in the background.

Photographie en gros plan d'un papillon monarque au soleil, orange et noir, posé sur une grappe de fleurs d'asclépiade tubéreuse jaune orange, les ailes repliées vers l'arrière. Du feuillage vert, d'autres fleurs oranges et du paillis de bois brun sont autour et flous en arrière-plan.

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15d

The Milky Weed Way spiral galaxy.
#MilkWeed

A milkweed seed seen up close, backlit by the sun. The little brown seed is at the bottom right of the frame. The sun is at the upper left, creating colorful prisms in the fine white strands of the milkweed sails, in a spiral effect

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14d

I pulled apart a milkweed seed pod to experience all the textures.
#TextureTuesday #milkweed

Part of a milkweed seed pod. The outside is pale lemony colored, and looks like meringue with little tips that come up and gently fall over, darker at the tips. The inside of this shell is almost white, textured like loofah.

The seeds inside an open pod. They're perfectly arranged in rows like a clamshell quilt, tear drop shapes that are darker and a bit fatter in the middle, and lighter around the edges, like they've been satin stitched with a palette brown thread.

Seen through a magnifying loupe, a pile of the brown seeds that have been removed from their white parasails, with the parasails still neatly arranged in the original clam shell pattern. The hairs haven't separated yet, and they look like matchsticks.

A single seed still attached to its parasails, with all the fine white threads separated and flowing out in all directions to catch the wind.

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