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)