Can anyone Identify this ?

[Budi]

My daughter sent it asking what it is & after all my years in the business, I honestly do not know this one.
Irs baffeling.
Usually one can i.d. the plant/leaves or the flower if there's a question.
But not this one!

What is this?

She saw on her walking path, by a lake in Nebraska.

A couple things come to mind but nothing fits both the flower or the plant.

Thanks!!

[luvs2sing]

1. Looks like milkweed to me. nt

[JohnnyLib2]

2. Me, too.

[Canoe52]

15. Me three

[Budi]

5. That was actually my only suggestion to her. Milkweed.

Plant kinda looks like it but its been a really long time since I've been it out on the prairie where it grows wild.

The flower & buds is a mystery however.

Thanks

[yonder]

3. ditto on the milkweed

[I_UndergroundPanther]

4. Is it milkweed?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Milkweed.

[Atticus]

7. That is milkweed, a necessity for Monarch butterflies. nt

[Budi]

8. Thanks all. I'm going with Milkweed. Doesn't it kinda stink too?

Trying to remember waaay back on this one.

Appreciate the assist.

[Budi]

9. Wait. She just sent a pic of a possible i.d. Is This the same as milkweed

YES. Asclepias is the botanical name for common Milkweed

[Tree-Hugger]

10. This is 100% Milkweed

Hopefully, it'll have some little caterpillars munching on it soon! It's an essential meal for Monarchs.

[MuseRider]

11. I am in NE Kansas

and my farm is blooming with several kinds of milkweed right now. I love this kind, the flowers are pretty. They all are really but that is such a nice color with the green grasses. Mildweed, absolutely.

[Budi]

12. Lucky you. I miss the prairie 🍃. . flowers & grasses, birds & night sky

Every place out there is an adventure

[MuseRider]

14. It is wonderful.

A lot of work but wonderful.

[Budi]

13. More necessary than I ever knew!

Faunal Associations:

The nectar of the flowers attracts long-tongued bees, butterflies, and skippers. To a lesser extent, green metallic bees and other Halictid bees may visit the flowers, but they are less effective at pollination.

Another unusual visitor of the flowers is the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird. Among the butterflies, such visitors as the Pipevine Swallowtail, Giant Swallowtail, American Painted Lady, Red Admiral, Clouded Sulfur, Eastern Tailed-Blue, Regal Fritillary, Great Spangled Fritillary, and many others have been reported.

A group of oligophagous insects feed on milkweeds. They include caterpillars of the butterfly Danaus plexippes (Monarch); caterpillars of the moths Cycnia inopinatus (Unexpected Cycnia) and Cycnia tenera (Delicate Cycnia); the aphids Aphis asclepiadis, Aphis nerii, and Myzocallis asclepiadis; Lygaeus kalmii (Small Milkweed Bug) and Oncopeltus fasciatus (Large Milkweed Bug); and Tetraopes tetrophthalmus (Red Milkweed Beetle).

Mammalian herbivores rarely consume Purple Milkweed and other milkweeds because of the bitter-tasting, toxic foliage, which contains cardiac glycosides.

https://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/savanna/plants/pur_milkweed.htm

Well now we know!

Thanks all 🙂

[Botany]

16. Common Milkweed

Asclepias syriaca .... a little course for most gardens but great for natural areas.

Monarchs love em. Lot of other critters use 'em and birds love the bugs that they "host."

If you have the time see if you can see the monarch caterpillar chewing across the leaf's mid
rib so it then eat that leaf to harvest the glycoside which gives the adult monarch protection
from being eaten by birds.