This poor plant is an asclepius tuberosa. I went away for about 10 days and this had happened in the interim. I have some other asclepius elsewhere on the property which are fine. Green. No sign of going dormant. This plant is in a rather gravelly meadow. Very well drained. I wouldn't think there would be a great invasion of slugs (which can do this to plants snuggled up to a stone wall.) Any ideas?
TIA
LAS
What happened to my asclepius?
Is it truly dead, or have the leaves just been eaten off of it? It is a food plant for the Monarch caterpillar, and if the leaves have been eaten off, you my find some chrysalises if you look around hard enough. They'll be on some different plant, or even on a fence.
This is what they look like: http://www.cirrusimage.com/butterfly/monarch_chrysalis.jpg
If they did munch your plant to its bare stems, consider yourself lucky, and don't worry, it will grow back again.
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