Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Seeds of Asclepias syriaca

Seeds of Asclepias syriaca

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Original - Asclepias syriaca, commonly called Common Milkweed, is a herbaceous plant species. It is in the genus Asclepias, making it a type of milkweed. This species is native to most of North America.The seeds are attached to long, white flossy hairs and encased in large follicles

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Reason

High EV and quality

Articles in which this image appears

Asclepias syriaca

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Plants/Others

Creator

Mbz1

• Support as nominator --Mbz1 (talk) 05:06, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose Awesome quality and technically sound, but the composition does my head in. I looked at it for minutes and still couldn't figure out what I was looking at, where the stem was, which way was up, etc. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 07:42, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

I believe you could not figure this out because it is one strange looking plant. What other composition I could have done to take a close up shot of the seeds?--Mbz1 (talk) 10:52, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

• Support original --George Chernilevsky ^talk 07:52, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
• Support either, prefer edit I get a better sense of what I'm looking at in the edit. Looks very interesting. Public Juju ^Talk 13:41, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Not promoted Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 09:12, 11 November 2010 (UTC)