Uvularia perfoliata; Liliaceae (lily family)

“Perfoliate” refers to the way the stem pierces the leaf.  This plant isn’t rare, but for some reason I never spotted it before.  It was one of three new-to-me plants found on a hike with the Maryland Native Plant Society.  Tomorrow: a globally rare plant that is abundant in the mid-Atlantic.

American bladdernut:

American elm:

oak (species unknown):

And two in the genus Prunus (the red one possibly Prunus persica): 

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
• several violets to be identified

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