--that comment was from Ruth Moorhead, local botany enthusiast.
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25-Jan-2006 01:21
I am a Showy Milkweed, Asclepias speciosa , common in this region; the flower shape is very intricately developed to take advantage of its pollinators' anatomy and foraging adaptation...the bulges in the flower grab the bee's legs and pull off the collected pollen sacs.
