Black Partridge Woods has beautiful spring ephemerals and real nice topography –geology makes these ravines possible!
Fields of wood betony are just finishing flowering; bumble bees still want them!
Headed out to pull some garlic mustard and then a take mossy retreat.
I promise we left all most of the seeds behind before we got in the car.
Fairy ponds are dry right now, but it’s full on gentian season in the oak openings!
Jack in the Pulpit is unmistakeable in the late spring.
Rather than early spring ephemerals, who bask in full sun underneath the leafless trees, plants active in the late spring enjoy the more dappled light that comes through as the tree canopy is leafing out.
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