Spring Beauties

I think these are my favourite spring wildflowers.

They are called spring beauties, and I have always thought that was a rather lame name. I mean, there are dogtooths or trout lilies, and trilliums, and bloodroots all around them, and they are simply spring beauties...

I am not denying that they are gorgeous, mind!

I am linking this post with Today's Flowers. feel free to drop in and enjoy the blossoms from around the world!

Spring Beauty

Spring beauties are possibly

 my favourite wildflower.

 About half an inch across,

 they are so tiny and delicate.

This is getting close to their northern limit,

 so they are hard to find,

 so I feel doubly blessed when I do find them.

 

Spring Beauties

Honest! That is the name of these flowers! I know they are, but it is such a boring name!

This is another species I have not seen in 40 years, and I love these tiny flowers!

And I do mean tiny - they are smaller than violets!