While walking on the Holly Farm Land Bank Land in Polpis Harbor today, I chanced upon this swamp milkweed, asclepias incarnata, one of the three types of milkweed that grow on Nantucket. The common milkweed, asclepias syriaca, is the host to the monarch butterflies which are so gaily flitting about these past three weeks, and blooms earlier. The third variety is the wavy-leaved milkweed, asclepias amplexicaulis.
It always excites me to see a new species, so I was already happy. Then, a hummingbird clearwing, hemaris thysbe, alighted on the milkweed. My daily dose of awe!
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| A pink variety of clethra alnifolia on the Polpis Harbor road  |
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