Milkweed Seeds

I love milkweed, plain and simple.  It has gorgeous flowers that when fertilized yield dried seed pods containing a multitude of brown seeds.

The seeds are arranged in layers, all neat and orderly, and each seed is attached to a bundle of delicate strands of silky, yellowish white fibers.

The fiber bundles act like parachutes and carry the seeds as they get picked up by the wind.

The seeds eventually fall to the ground and if the soil conditions are just right, they take root to grow new milkweed plants.