The most important plant in my yard!

Common Milkweed ready to welcome Mama Monarch Butterflies who will lay their eggs! Milkweed is the ONLY plant Monarch caterpillars can eat.

[Graeme Stevens]

Nice shot - we call it Swan Plant here.

[Darinka]

Simply beautiful!Great texture!

[Sue Wilde]

How lovely, and quite unlike the Australian milkweed

[Taffy]

A great capture of the beginning of this wonderful plant.

[Dawn Ulmer]

A great beginning for some needed food.

[Quentin]

Great macro!

[Judith]

Very pretty.

[philip maddever]

a sacrafice then

[Margaret Obey]

Thanks for spelling out it's importance as I wouldn't have known. Makes it an extra special capture. Looking forward to the butterfly captures

[~*~ Jo ~*~]

Lovely shot

[Andrew]

i didnt know that, im looking forward to see your butterfly shots!

[Julie Urbahn]

Lovely shot.

[Jennifer]

Lovely shot, love the dof. How exciting to soon have lots of butterflies.

[Kane Arlow]

Fantastic shot, they did a bit on TV here recently about the decline in numbers of the Monarch Butterfly, I hope this isn't the case in your area, they look amazing when they are all grouped together.

[Nicole Campbell]

It looks very healthy for them to eat

[katy]

Nice. I may need to look into getting some milkweed!

[CINDY JOHNSON]

great detail

[Lyn Berriman]

Fabulous!

[Edie]

Gorgeous shot. Love the soft focus.

[Ken "Tasian"]

The DOF on your macros really rock!

[Francoise]

nice square way that they grow.

[Marloes]

Oh, wow, how interesting.

[Bill Fenske]

Great capture. Yay! for monarchs