The List So Far

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4/27

  • swamp buttercup
  • may-apple
  • plantain-leaved pussytoes

4/25:

  • creeping buttercup*
  • Persian speedwell*
  • marsh blue violet
  • northern white violet
  • smooth yellow violet
  • several trees to be identified, including possible Prunus and Rhododendron species

4/24:

  • several species of violets yet to be identified, including maybe LeConte’s, broad-leaved wood, and southern wood

4/21:

  • American bladdernut
  • American elm
  • winter cress*
  • jack-in-the-pulpit
  • chinkapin oak
  • oceanblue phacelia
  • dwarf cinquefoil
  • rough bedstraw
  • sweet cicely
  • mouse-ear chickweed*

4/17:

  • corn gromwell*
  • azur bluets
  • sassafrass
  • creamy violet
  • wild ginger
  • kidney-leaved buttercup
  • bulbous buttercup*
  • paw paw
  • flowering dogwood
  • 2 different unknown oak species
  • field pansy
  • smooth Solomon’s seal
  • unknown small tree, suspect Prunus species

4/14

  • downy yellow violet
  • golden alexanders
  • southern chervil
  • smooth rock cress
  • lyre-leaved rock cress
  • redbud
  • field chickweed
  • star chickweed
  • golden ragwort
  • nodding star-of-Bethlehem*
  • white form Virginia bluebell
  • white form common blue violet

4/10

  • round-leaved violet

4/8

  • common blue violet
  • short-spurred corydalis
  • spring avens
  • wild blue phlox
  • gill-over-the-ground*
  • toadshade

4/6

  • rue anemone (Thalictrum thalictroides)
  • round-lobed hepatica (Hepatica nobilis var. obtusa)
  • fine-leaved toothwort?!

4/3

  • twinleaf (Jeffersonia diphylla)
  • bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
  • slender toothwort (Cardamine angustata)
  • Virginia bluebell (Mertensia virginica)

4/2

  • harbinger-of-spring (Erigenia bulbosa)
  • trout lily (Erythronium americanum)
  • Dutchman’s breeches (Dicenta cucullaria)

3/31

  • common chickweed* (Stellaria media)
  • large toothwort (Cardamine maxima)
  • squirrel corn (Dicentra canadensis)
  • cut-leaved toothwort (Cardamine concatenata)
  • spicebush (Lindera benzoin)
  • lesser celandine* (Ranunculus ficaria)

3/21

  • early saxifrage (Saxifraga virginiensis)
  • red dead nettle* (Lamium purpureum)

3/15

  • hoary bittercress* (Cardamine hirsuta)
  • ivy-leaved speedwell* (Veronica hederifolia)

3/12

  • spring beauty (Claytonia virginica)

 

*alien

2 thoughts on “The List So Far”

  1. Hi, PJ – it’s very simple, really: a basal leaf arises from the base of the plant. Stem leaves arise from the stem. Look at the picture of early saxifrage (April 5): that plant has basal leaves only. Some wildflowers have one or the other, some have both, and some will have none at the time of blooming.

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