Gleaning Facebook: Spring At Arrowhead

Fiddleheads and fern. I don't know this one.

Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum)
Look for the forked plants to find the little fruit

Fiddleheads probably of Christmas Fern (Polystichum acrostichoides )

 

Vaccinium sp? 

Blackberry? Dewberry? Rubus sp? 

Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) 

Sweet Betsy (Trillium cuneatum) 

Red Buckeye (Aesculus pavia ) 

Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
Redbud is one of those abundant native plants that is edible. The flowers, young fruit (beans), and leaves can be eaten.

Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum) 

Eastern Sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus) 

Rat Snake (Elaphe [Pantherophis] obsoleta)

Rat Snake (Elaphe [Pantherophis] obsoleta) with several Homo sapiens

These second-graders were wonderful in their response to this interesting animal. They watched it with wonder and respect till it slowly crawled into a hole in the tree. 

Rat Snake (Elaphe [Pantherophis] obsoleta)
All kinked up. 

Azure Bluets or Quaker Ladies (Houstonia caerulea) 

LOVELIEST of trees, the cherry now  
Is hung with bloom along the bough,  
And stands about the woodland ride  
Wearing white for Eastertide.  

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,  
And take from seventy springs a score,  
It only leaves me fifty more.  

And since to look at things in bloom  
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go  
To see the cherry hung with snow.

-A.E. Housman

I love this time of year, and the beautiful maple samaras, like red spring blossums punctuating the range of spring greens, are one of the reasons.

Species? Vaccinium sp?

New leaves on a tiny oak tree. Species?

Star Chickweed (Stellaria pubera)

Foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia)

Comments

Bill Barker
Good show Terrell thank you.

Frances Burk Herron
Thanks for sharing the pictures and info.

Sarah Anne
Terrell Shaw Verbena bonariensis

Deborah Lake Dawson
I just picked the first one in my Mom's meadow. Loved it but did not know what it was.

Sharlette Denise Holcomb
Great pictures! Love these!

Marilyn Murdock McLean
Terrell, I'm loving the Arrowhead pictures you post. Makes me miss it:/

Terrell Shaw
Come see us!

Delene Gray Buffington
I am sorry to say but the last time I went out there (last year) it looked horrible, No water in ponds, so grown u[ that you couldnt walk around the place. i was very disappointed in the condition it was in. Maybe its getting better!

Larry Madden
Thanks for sharing the pics and your knowledge. I hate it when people share pics and fail to identify or locate the subject!

David Matheny
Dad wore his black wool one for years...