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Black Partridge Woods, IL • May 2020

May 30, 2020June 20, 2020 | aea

Black Partridge Woods has beautiful spring ephemerals and real nice topography –geology makes these ravines possible!

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Fields of wood betony are just finishing flowering; bumble bees still want them!

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Thornton-Lansing Woods, IL • October 2018

October 28, 2018December 2, 2020 | aea

Fairy ponds are dry right now, but it’s full on gentian season in the oak openings!

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Sand Ridge Nature Center trails, IL • May 2018

May 27, 2018April 23, 2024 | aea

Jack in the Pulpit is unmistakeable in the late spring.

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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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Southwest Cook County, IL • September 2013

Video | September 20, 2013February 26, 2017 | aea

Markham Prairie, IL • December 2012

December 12, 2012February 26, 2017 | aea

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