And here’s the report for yesterday, April 8, along Billy Goat B and the area between it and Carderock proper.

• lyre-leaved rockcress (Arabidopsis lyrata)
• smooth rockcress (Boechera laevigata)
• slender toothwort (Cardamine angustata)
• cutleaf toothwort (Cardamine concatenata)
• redbud (Cercis canadensis)
• spring beauty (Claytonia virginica)
• short-spurred corydalis (Corydalis flavula)
• Dutchman’s breeches (Dicentra cucullaria)
• trout lily (Erythronium americanum)
• twinleaf (Jeffersonia diphylla)
• spicebush (Lindera benzoin)
• Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica)
• early saxifrage (Micranthes virginiensis)
• golden ragwort (Packera aurea)
• wild blue phlox (Phlox divaricata)
• moss phlox (Phlox subulata)
• littleleaf buttercup (Ranunculus abortivus)
• bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
• star chickweed (Stellaria pubera)
• rue anemone (Thalictrum thalictroides)
• toadshade (Trillium sessile)
• sessile bellwort (Uvularia sessilifolia) –just one, but lots of plants; more flowers soon!
• downy yellow violet (Viola pubescens var. scabriuscula)
• common blue violet (Viola sororia)