These are all over the creek path now. When the milkweed pods are ripe and dry, they pop open. Inside is a closely packed roll of several hundred flat brown seeds arranged like scales on a fish, each with a folded parachute of fine silky fibers. Gradually, these parachutes open and the seeds are carried away on the fall winds.
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