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Wildflowers Around Our Home Spring 2020 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2020) |
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Wildflowers Around Our Home Spring 2020 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2020) |
| I didn't shoot as many wildflowers in our yard this spring, since it's the same flowers, year after year. But I still couldn't resist photographing a few of the early bloomers... Mid March - first of the spring ephemerals: |
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| Rue Anemone (Thalictrum thalictroides) |
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| Dimpled Trout Lily (Erythronium umbilicatum) |
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| Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) |
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| Common Blue Violet (Viola sororia) |
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| Virginia Pennywort (Obolaria virginica) The buds were just starting to open... |
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| Trillium cuneatum We have hundreds, if not thousands, of this species growing on our property... |
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| Halberd-leaf Violet (Viola hastata) |
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| Sharp-lobed Hepatica (Hepatica acutiloba) |
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| Golden Ragwort (Packera aurea) just beginning to bloom... |
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| Star Chickweed (Stellaria pubera) |
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| About two weeks later: |
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| Pennywort in bloom, two weeks after the earlier image... |
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| Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis) |
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| Tiny spider on the petal of a Trillium cuneatum |
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| The Golden Ragwort had developed widespread blooms along our creek... |
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| Not a wildflower! An Eastern Whitelip snail (Neohelix albolabris) |
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| Trillium cuneatum, yellow form This species typically has a maroon flower, but about 5-10% in the woods around our place have a yellow, yellow-green, or bronze coloring. |
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| Foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia), just starting to flower... |
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| Robin's Plantain (Erigeron pulchellus) |
Late May: |
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| Indian Pink (Spigelia marilandica) |