Hepatica

Another wildflower that is filling the woods

 is the hepatica.

 Who decides on the final names for flowers?

 Why are some of them so formal, 

 and others so cute?

 I suppose it doesn't really matter,

 so long as they bloom.

 

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.

 

Dutchmans Britches

The wildflowers are starting to bloom in the woods.

 I had forgotten how tiny some of them are,

 like these Dutchmans britches.

 

Bloodroots

I made my first trip of the spring to the Beaver Pond Trail,

 where I found wildflowers in bloom,

some varieties of which I had never seen before.

 These are bloodroots, a flower I remember from childhood.

 If you pick the blossoms, their sap stains your hands an orangey red.

 And yes, I have selected the best captures.

 Fifty made it into the first round of editing.

 

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