Milkweed in bloom · recreated in watercolour

A common-milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) umbel, painted with the bubble-chamber project's own wet renderer (src/render/watercolor.js) driven by a new umbel generator (src/milkweed/umbel.js). The conceit that made it fit: a milkweed umbel is a radial event — a hidden central node, pedicels radiating like tracks, each blooming into a five-pointed star at its tip. The bubble chamber's vertex and δ-ray spray, restated in botany; life wearing the shape of the particle event. Same pigment physics as the plates — Beer–Lambert subtractive optics, the wet edge, cold-press granulation, wet-into-wet bleed — only the geometry and the palette change (sap green, quinacridone rose, a pale corona crown that barely tints the paper). Deterministic from seed; herbarium caption from the shared archive-identity system.

The reference

Reference — Asclepias syriaca in full bloom: a domed cluster of open mauve star-flowers with pale corona crowns, deep-maroon buds, sage leaves.
photo · Wikimedia Commons (Common_Milkweed_Bloom)

The recreations

Milkweed Bloom — the recreation: a domed umbel of pink florets, pale-crowned, buds toward the rim, leaves splayed behind.
milkweed · cream · MONARCH-3320
Asclepias — a second specimen, same medium, a fuller cluster.
milkweed · cream · ASCLEPIAS-7781
Prairie — a rounder dome; the wet-into-wet bleed unifies the florets into one pink haze.
milkweed · cream · PRAIRIE-5562
Dewy — the medium turned wet: high wetness and bleed, soft edges, on cool blue-grey paper. A misted morning.
milkweed · cool · wcWetness 1.5 / wcBleed 1.4 · SWAMP-1190
Dry-brush — the opposite craft: drier, crisp wet edges, granulation turned up, on warm sepia. Late-summer, going to seed.
milkweed · sepia · wcGranulate 1.35 / wcEdge 1.2 · AUTUMN-4408