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Every spring I like to get out and catalog what wildflowers I see around home on Staymon Road. This is by no means an exhaustive list, just a smattering of some of the more unusual ones at the moment; but if you are out walking or driving, this post may help you identify what you're seeing. Wildflowers come and go as the spring unfolds, but I was pretty happy to see one of these Toadshade Trillium for the first time here, down near Apple Creek Road on 4/20:
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| Yellow Trillium |
We have two species of white trillium in ACA I've seen, the white Wake Robin and the Large-Flowering Trillium (the latter not out quite yet):
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| White Wake Robin Trillium |
In the purple category, we have the rather striking Dwarf Larkspur:
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| Dwarf Larkspur |
An unusual yellow flower looks like it's wilted as it hangs straight down...it's the Large-Flowering Bellwort:
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| Large-flowering Bellwort |
I won't bother posting pictures of all the various violets, as we have several varieties of blue/purple, white, and yellow. This white flower has the cute moniker of Squirrel Corn:
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| Squirrel Corn |
In the non-descript category, the medicinal Blue Cohosh is in bloom (Black Cohosh is here, too):
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| Blue Cohosh |
In the tree category, the first leaves fully out are Buckeyes, easily identified by their five leaves coming off of one point:
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| Buckeye leaves |
Stay tuned for others to come!
Bob
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