The spring beauty & trout lilly are back

[Botany]

If you are in the east or midwest for the next 6 weeks please go visit a forest and enjoy the
show of our spring ephemerals ...... if you catch the right day the displays can be amazing





For those in Ohio go to Strouds Run State Park in late April and take the hiking trail from the end of the
campground over the hills.

[Curmudgeoness]

1. Thanks for the breath of spring. I always get into the woods

in the spring. Wish the weather would get a little better here in W PA. Wonderful spots here.

[Botany]

4. Funny thing ... no matter if it is cold or not they always

come back. A 50 degree sunny day anytime now and you can see the show.





early june .... Mt. Laurel

[postulater]

2. We have all those in our yard here in Milwaukee.

Though they won't be showing here for three or four weeks yet.

Our Mayapple patch is over twenty feet across right underneath two thirty inch basswoods.

Our yard is what keeps me sane. We have more birds than all the other houses in the neighborhood combined, the deer bed in our woods and lie there while I carry firewood into the house.

When I can't look outside and see a bit of Mother, I shrivel up.

[postulater]

3. Stroud's Run Park. Is that just west of Cleveland?

Thanks for the photos.

[Botany]

6. Athens County, Ohio

[postulater]

14. Nice, last time I was in the area I remember considering going there but it didn't work out.

Now I'll make it a point next time I go back.

[Scuba]

5. Beautiful. Thanks for posting. n/t

[MineralMan]

7. We're still a week or two away from a similar display

here in the Twin Cities. I keep watching for my tulips. So far, no wildflowers in the immediate area. Soon.

[Botany]

8. If you have some wet areas ... skunk cabbage will be up ...

.... soon

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[MineralMan]

9. True. I know of some swampy areas near my home. I'll have a look

this weekend.

[gateley]

10. Oh those are so pretty! I noticed last night that the cherry blossom trees are

blooming here in Seattle, too -- always says "Spring" to me. :-)

ETA photo - spread the beauty! These are at the UW which is famous for their cherry blossom trees - I'm guessing the pic isn't from this year yet, but when they're in full bloom it's a sight to behold. Many wedding photos are taken there - just lovely.

[apocalypsehow]

11. Great pics. Kick, Rec. n/t.

[bobbolink]

12. We have the spring beauty, but not yet. Your "trout" lily looks like our "avalanche" lily.

Do you have the pasque flower?



edited to put in our avalanche lily:

[Botany]

13. I have some on a project that I did but no natives ,,,

... that I know of ..... great plant ... pasque flower

avalanche lily is a close relative of the trout lilly same genus but a different species.

[bobbolink]

15. Probably our earliest flower, which isn't a native, is

the fillaree:
Its a weed, but doesn't seem particularly invasive.

Another early one, which I worked to eradicate, is the myrtle spurge:

I have an intense hatred of that plant, and one population that I have watched for quite a while seems to be gone. Haven't seen it the last couple of years. :bounce:


This is one of our early spring friends, but don't try to pick them:


They wake up hungry and cranky.

[Botany]

16. but they like to have fun when they wake up

BTW can you imagine what some hopeless teabagger or freeper thinks of this thread? :rofl:

[bobbolink]

17. O.M.G! That is one incredible photo!

And we're off to the races!

[Botany]

19. Loves me some bay airs ....

Ever since I was in a canoe in the Quetico Park about 50 miles north of the border
and a big black bear came out of the woods and watched us fishing for about an
hour .... I swear he was laughing @ us ..... I watched him take his paw and flip a
very heavy log so he could eat grubs .... the log had to be > 300 LBS.

[bobbolink]

20. I need to know this before I can go to sleep tonight...

he was eating GROUPS of what?????

:rofl:

I worked a season at Rocky Mountain National Park, and I saw too many tourists doing too many dumb things around bears. And moose.

They can so easily tear a tent to shreds, and rip open a car, yet people get so careless.

Yes, they can be fun to watch. But, not if they have lost their fear of humans because of some very dumb humans.

[Botany]

21. sorry grubs

botany = dunce

I think they bear had learned that some people (idiots) will throw food to them
from their canoes. Either that or he just wanted to watch us .... a fox came out
@ the same time too .... and for that hour the fishing was just wild .... pike, smallmouth bass,
walleye, and even some brook trout ..... I have never had anything like that since.

[bobbolink]

22. WHEW! I thought maybe he was digging up groups of liberals who were hidding from Sarah.

:rofl:

In honor of your photo, here is one of my faves.... Kinnikinik


The bearberry, or Arctostaphylos uva-ursi

Here's the Canadian violet we should be seeing soon at lower elevations:

[nolabear]

18. Hmph. They're not even bareback.

[snagglepuss]

23. Beautiful. Thanks so much for a breath of Spring. nt

[Rhiannon12866]

24. I'm enjoying this hint of spring, too...

Yesterday at this time it was still snowing here in NY... :(