Guide to Spring Wildflowers

Guide to Spring Wildf lowers Protect these plants by viewing them from the trail and leaving all parts in place.

Early Spring (March – Early April) Species

Skunk Cabbage Spring Beauty Round-lobed Hepatica Cut-leaved Toothwort Bloodroot Yellow Trout Lily Symplocarpus foetidus Claytonia virginica Hepatica nobilis var. obtusa Cardamine concatenata Sanguinaria canadensis Erythronium americanum Habitat Wet woods, ravine Well drained to moist Well-drained, upland Moist woods, floodplains Rich wooded slopes Rich woods, banks of bottoms woodlands, base of trees woodlands streams

Species

White Trout Lily Purple Cress Marsh Marigold Early Meadow Rue Dutchman’s Breeches Swamp Buttercup Erythronium albidum Cardamine douglassii Caltha palustris Thalictrum dioicum Dicentra cucullaria Ranunculus hispidus Habitat Moist to woodlands Rich wooded slopes Wetlands, including vernal Shady, rich mesic Moist woodlands Part shade; moist woods, and gentle slopes in pools, swamps, seeps, woodlands, wooded clay seeps, along streams wooded areas and ditches slopes, and ravines

Recommended Spring Wildflower Viewing Trails: Farnsworth: Brown | Fallen Timbers Visitor Center: Red | Oak Openings Preserve: Blue Pearson: Orange | Providence: Orange | Secor: Yellow | Swan Creek: Yellow | Wildwood: Blue Guide to Spring Wildf lowers Protect these plants by viewing them from the trail and leaving all parts in place.

Middle Spring (Late April – Early May) Species

Pennsylvania Sedge Common Blue Violet Common Yellow Violet Wild Sarsparilla Sessile-leaf Bellwort Wood Anemone Carex pensylvanica Viola sororia Viola pubescens eriocopa Aralia nudicaulis Uvularia sessilifolia Anemone quinquefolia Habitat Sandy loam areas of Open woodlands and Moist woodlands, Upland rich & sandy Upland woods Well drained savannas or woodlands lawns woodland borders and woods woodlands with abundant organic thickets matter

Species

Wild Blue Phlox Blue Cohosh Great White Trillium Wild Geranium Wild Ginger May Apple Jack-in-the Pulpit Phlox divaricata Caulophyllum thalictroides Trillium grandiflorum Geranium maculatum Asarum canadense Podophyllum peltatum Arisaema triphyllum Habitat Moist to slightly Rich woodlands and Rich woodlands and Upland & wet wood- Moist woodlands or Upland woods Wet to upland woods dry woodlands and wooded slopes of shaded slopes lands & floodplain floodplains & floodplains slopes large ravines edges

Late Spring (Mid May to Late May) Species

False Solomon’s Seal Solomon’s Seal Wild Columbine Sweet Cicely Virginia Waterleaf Tall Meadow Rue Maianthemum racemosum Polygonatum commutatum Aquilegia canadensis Osmorhiza claytonii Hydrophyllum virginianum Thalictrum dasycarpum Habitat Dry to moist woodlands Moist to dry woodlands Open shady woodlands Moist woods & slopes Wooded slopes & Savannas and thickets, and woodland borders or rocky savannas floodplains openings in wooded areas, ravines, floodplain woodlands, swamps and ditches

Species

Golden Ragwort Green Dragon Blue Flag Iris Wild Lupine Dwarf Dandelion Hoary Puccoon Packera aurea Arisaema dracontium Iris versicolor Lupinus perennis Krigia virginica Lithospermum canescens Habitat Rich wet woodlands Moist woodlands, shady Floodplains and edges Sand prairies, savannas, Dry sand prairies, Sand prairies and seeps, floodplain forests of ponds and sand barrens savannas, dunes, upland savannas and vernal pools and fields