Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Milkweed

I had never realized there were variations in the colour of milkweed flowers.

The paler ones are common milkweed, while the more red flowers are swamp milkweed. There is a third, white milkweed that I have not seen.


8 comments:

Roses and Lilacs said...

Most of the milkweed we see here is darker, often a purplish color. It is really a lovely bloom and it smells so nice.
Marnie

Anonymous said...

Beautiful photography Judy! I'm learning a lot about flowers by reading your blog now! I don't tink I've ever seen milkweed in my area, it's really pretty!

nonizamboni said...

I've only seen the pink too. Love to see the close-ups. The flower buds are about to open in our area soon and then maybe. . .a butterfly?
Thanks for sharing!

VALKYRIEN said...

This is such a lovely flower - but I have only seen it the last couple of days - from visiting blogs! I don't know if we have it in Norway.

Nice shots.....and hope you see my comment on one of your previous posts!

Wish you a great week!

Annie said...

BBeautiful Flowers , thanks Judy. My computer is being slow at loading, but I have seen many beautiful photos below also...!!
Thanks for visiting my flowers also today.

EG CameraGirl said...

Wonderful shots. Now we can start looking for butterflies! Yippee!!

Anonymous said...

I just wanted to add some irony here! I commented above that I'd never seen milkweed...on my walk today, I saw a hummingbird in the pink flowers and wanted to photograph her, lo ad behold she was feeding in the milkweed, thanks for teaching me what that flower was Judy!

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