An Afternoon of Spring Wildflowers The Pocket & Hog-jowl Creek at Mountain Cove Farm |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2014) |
Spring 2014: |
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Cutleaf Toothwort (Cardamine concatenata) |
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Spring Beauty (Claytonia caroliniana) |
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Yellow Violet (Viola hastata) |
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Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) |
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Star Chickweed (Stellaria pubera) |
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Longspurred Violets (Viola rostrata) |
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Christmas Fern fiddleheads |
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Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum) |
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Trailing Wakerobin (Trillium decumbens) |
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Spring Beauties |
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Hepatica - Liverleaf (Hepatica nobilis, or Anemone acutiloba) |
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Christmas Fern frond (Polystichum acrostichoides) |
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Morel mushroom (Morchella genus) |
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Celandine (Wood) Poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum) |
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Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica) |
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Trout Lily |
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Phacelia (Phacelia bipinnatifida) |
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Nodding Wakerobins (Trillium flexipes) at three stages of bloom |
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Trailing Wakerobin |
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Virginia Bluebells |
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Dutchman's Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria) |
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Celandine (Wood) Poppy |
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Pair of Trout Lilies |
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Rue Anemone (Thalictrum thalictroides) |
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Phacelia |
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Bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora) |
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Virginia Bluebells |
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Celandine Poppies |
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Robin's Plantain (Erigeron pulchellus) |
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Red Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) |
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Virginia Bluebells along the creek |
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Dead Nettle (Lamium purpureum) was abundant in the nearby meadows |
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Redbuds (Cercis canadensis) at Pocket trailhead |
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A quick side trip, on my way to another destination - Spring 2016: |
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Harbinger of Spring (Erigenia bulbosa) |
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Hepatica (Anemone acutiloba) |
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Cutleaf Toothwort (Cardamine concatenata) |