May 2021

The pictures below were captured during hikes in early May.

Acer - Norway or sugar maple, need to inspect sap color to determine species.

Acer pensylvanicum - Striped maple

Allium tricoccum - Ramps

Cardamine diphylla - Two-leaved toothwort

Carex - sedge, not sure of the species, doesn't look like carex pensylvanica.

Carex pensylvanica - Pennsylvania sedge

Chimaphila maculata - Spotted Wintergreen

Claytonia virginica - Virginia springbeauty

Corydalis sempervirens - Rock harlequin, plant after flowering.

Dicentra cucullaria - Dutchman's breeches, flowers have been replaced by seedheads.

Erythronium americanum - Yellow trout lily

Fagus grandifolia - American beech

Hamamelis virginiana - Witch Hazel

Maianthemum canadense - Canada mayflower

Mitchella repens - Partridgeberry

Mitella diphylla - Bishop's cap / Twoleaf miterwort

Panax trifolius - Dwarf ginseng

Polygonatum pubescens - Hairy Solomon's Seal

Ranunculus abortivus - Littleleaf buttercup, these are all over the place this year, very weedy in behavior.

Rubus phoenicolasius - Wineberry

Sanguinaria canadensis - Bloodroot

Symplocarpus foetidus - Skunk cabbage

Veratrum viride - False hellebore

Viola sororia - Common blue violet

Violet pubescens - Downy yellow violet