<\/a><\/p>\n Wood anenomes (Anenome quinquefolia<\/span>) are always lovely, but small and easy to overlook. \u00a0They look like a strawberry blossom, and can grow in huge patches, but today I just saw solitary flowers.<\/p>\n <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a> It wasn’t a perfect day. It wasn’t a perfect day because I want to have someplace to go if something improves. \u00a0I can’t find a thing I’d change about this day except to make it slightly longer. I had a … Continue reading
May Apples (Podophyllum peltatum<\/span>) are from the same family as some of the more poisonous plants (it’s also locally called Mandrake). \u00a0It’s related to purple cohosh, which some indiginous folks used for female troubles. \u00a0Apparently some still do. \u00a0Nature’s pharmacy, no?<\/p>\n
Bellwort (Uvularia grandifloria<\/span>). \u00a0Check out that perfoliate leaf. \u00a0I love that. \u00a0I have no idea what the adaptive quality of having a leaf surround a stem, or to have a stem grow through a leaf (to each his own), but it makes it easy to identify.<\/p>\n
Nodding Trillium (Trillium cernuum<\/span>) are blooming and we found a few solitary plants as well as a large patch. \u00a0According to my friend Megan<\/a>, the north woods trillium are so thick it “looks like a Kleenex factory blew up.” \u00a0Trenchant metaphor, sis.<\/p>\n
Marsh Marigolds (Caltha palustris<\/span>) are also called “Cowslips.” \u00a0I don’t know the etymology of that. \u00a0Maybe cows like ’em. \u00a0They’re in the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae<\/span>)* so they’re technically not marigolds at all.
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