Milkweed Plant Seed Pod. Milkweed plants produce distinct seed pods in late summer. Add to likebox 79593805 white and black lygaeoidea over a leaf.
Here are a couple of tricks to ensure that your seeds are mature and viable. Asclepias species produce their seeds in pods termed follicles the seeds which are arranged in overlapping rows bear a cluster of white silky filament like hairs known as the coma often referred to by other names such as pappus floss plume or silk the follicles ripen and split open and the seeds each carried by its coma are blown by the wind. The brown dried pod in the upper left is just beginning to split open perfect to harvest the seed.
Harvest milkweed seeds without the fluff part 2.
Choose seeds from other bug free milkweed plants. The brown dried pod in the upper left is just beginning to split open perfect to harvest the seed. Leave this pod alone to scatter seed in the wind. Pick pods as they turn brown dry and mature.