lilac-colored flowers
Thanks to NH Gardener, I've discovered these are Wild Geraniums. This is one color that doesn't come through the camera nearly as vividly as to the eye. It's really quite a beautiful shade of lilac...
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yellow birch catkins and fruit
Last year's fruit, looking a bit like dry cones, still clings here and there, and the spiny cores project like thorns where the seeds have fallen away. This year's male catkins hang down, and the f...
Dwarf ginseng
Apparently this is not the medicinally preferred variety of ginseng. But it's still beautiful to discover underfoot.
Sweet Fern catkins and flowers
The catkins at the end are male flowers, not yet fully in bloom. The bright magenta-red flower, lower down, is female.
understory buds
For some understory trees, the best strategy is to blossom early, taking advantage of spring sunlight before the canopy fills out with foliage. Here, the northern spicebush flower gets a head start...