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MILKWEED, A FAVORITE SOURCE of nourishment among monarch butterflies, has gone to seed in a field in Brunswick. Milkweed flowers bloom until August and then seeds that form in pods and are carried on the wind by the seed’s floss — a silky, white filament that is sometimes used commercially in pillow stuffing mixtures.
MILKWEED, A FAVORITE SOURCE of nourishment among monarch butterflies, has gone to seed in a field in Brunswick. Milkweed flowers bloom until August and then seeds that form in pods and are carried on the wind by the seed’s floss — a silky, white filament that is sometimes used commercially in pillow stuffing mixtures.

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