We have lots of wildflowers through out much of the year. We've seen a round-lobed hepatica blooming at Christmas time. 2006 was a banner year for wildflowers. Mainly because we've spent so much time walking to see the eagle nest, we've caught lots of these we've missed in the past. Like the Showy Orchis that we saw in full bloom during one week, then it's gone.
Lots of hepatica along the sunny-side of the stream-bed in January! From the number of crane-fly orchis leaves, the woods will be full of them this summer. We've seen more Putty Root leaves also. For many of these things, there may not actually be more, we may just be better at spotting them.
A partial list
--- January
Round lobed hepatica - hepatica americana - also called Liverleaf
--- February
Round lobed hepatica
--- March
Trout lily
Bluets
Violets
- Common Blue Violet
- Southern Wood Violet
- Field Pansy
- Halberd Leaved Violet
Cut-leaved Henbit
Toadshade (Toadshade Trillium)
Spring Beauty
Bloodroot
Wild Ginger
Rue Anenome
--- April
Mayapple
Dwarf Iris
Foam Flower
Bowman's Root
Wild Comfrey
Small Flowered Crowfoot
Ground Ivy
Pussy-toes
Blue Toadflax
Eastern Blue-Eyed Grass
Sweetshrub (Calycanthus Floridus)
Fire Pink
Solomon's Seal
False Solomon's Seal
Alum Root
Rattlesnake Weed
Showy Orchis
Creeping Bluets
Jack in the Pulpit
--- May
Indian Cucumber Root
Galax
Mountain Laurel
Squawroot
Skullcap (not sure which one)
---June
Spotted Wintergreen
Rhododendron
Lopseed
Common St. Johnswort
Black Snakeroot
Monkeyflower
--- Summer
Crane fly orchis
- Leaves come up in late Sept/Oct after the flower is dead.
Cardinal flower
Jewel weed
Rattlesnake plantain
Arrowhead
Joe-Pye-Weed
Tickseed Sunflower
Winged Primrose
Ditch Stonecrop
False Nettle
Morning Glory
Meadow Beauty
Turtlehead (Sept/Oct)
Beechdrops
