Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
With the start of October comes our slow turning towards the cold season. My yard is peppered with acorns, leaves are starting to yellow, and many wildflowers are noticeable now more for their striking seed pods than their colorful blooms. One of my favorites (is it weird to have favorite seed pods?) are the seed pods of the milkweed genus (Asclepias). One of our common native milkweeds is butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa), also known as orange milkweed. Where it is…