It's a Butterfly Weed plant I bought at a plant sale
at the Caluse Nature Center in Fort Myers.
It was covered with these lovely orange blooms as shown above.
The next time I looked at the plant, it looked like the photo below.
The seed pods (which I hadn't noticed at all)
were splitting open just like familiar Milkweed.
Closer inspection showed this:
A Monarch Butterfly caterpillar eating the leaves and pods!
What luck--and in February!
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