Swamp milkweed

[vaneramos]

Asclepias incarnata

I have few chances to visit the Eramosa River in July and August, but I made it down for a few minutes this morning and was rewarded by finding this favourite wildflower, which I have never seen here before. Unlike the more familiar milkweed species, this one is sweetly fragrant with what I call a powdery scent.

The teeming pools of tadpoles had vanished and I saw one minute black toad hopping up the path.

Gotta run. Les will be here any minute.