FWBG, BRIT, Fort Worth, Texas Photograph: Jeanette Hyden
Green Milkweed, Antelope horn milkweed (Asclepias viridis)
FWBG, BRIT, Fort Worth, Texas Photograph: Jeanette Hyden
Green Milkweed, Antelope horn milkweed (Asclepias viridis)
A silky, hair-like structure assists in dispersing the seeds
when the pods break open. The most common methods of seed dispersal for plants are wind, water, animals, explosion and fire. When the milkweed follicle breaks open the seeds are transported by the wind as the breeze blows the hairlike comas to more distant locations.
The Milkweed flower is called an umbellate cymes
The milkweed seedpod is known as a follicle
The milkweed seedpod is known as a follicle
The seeds, each with long, white flossy hairs (coma), occur in the follicle seedpod and are dispersed after the pod breaks open and the wind carries the seed away.
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Vinca
Variegated Common Periwinkle (Vinca minor 'Variegata')
Variegated Common Periwinkle (Vinca minor 'Variegata')
