Mayapple, Tall Buttercup, Hoary Alyssum, Fringed Polygala, White Campion

Mayapple is a member of the barberry family. A solitary flower is found in between leaves.

Tall Buttercup shines among all the flowers.

Hoary Alyssum has four white petals that are deeply cleft giving them the appearance of having eight petals.

Fringed Polygala is also called Gaywings. They are low-growing and spread through underground stems to form small colonies.

White Campion has a white flower on a purple, balloon-like structure which is the calyx.

Red Clover, Tartarian Honeysuckle, English Plantain, Euonymus, Striped Maple

Red Clover has large pink flower heads and leaves that often feature a white chevron.

Tartarian Honeysuckle is another highly invasive plant.

English Plantain has a dense, dark cone shaped head with small white stamens emerging.

Euonymus is a small shrib with small yellowish-green flowers. Another alien ivasive.

Striped Maple's flowers hang in clusters known as racemes. Its bark features white stripes on a greenish-brown background.

Autumn Olive, Black Medick, White Clover, Wild Azalea, Starry Solomon's Seal

Autumn Olive has a very distinctive small. Unfortunately it's an invasive.

Black Medick is found on roadsides and weedy places.

White Clover is found at roadsides and lawns.

Wild Azalea is beginning to bloom with its bright pink flowers.

Starry false Solomon's Seal has pleated leaves with stalkless flowers.

Chokeberry, Starflower, Baneberries

Black Chokeberry is in the rose family. It will produce black berries in the fall.

Starflower is a low growing perennial wildflower that grows in hardwood and conifer forests.

White Baneberry or Doll's-eyes will produce white berries in the late summer.

Red Baneberry or Chinaberry is found on a pyramidal raceme later elongating.

Sweet Woodruff is a mat-forming perennial found in moist woodlands.

Cleavers, Sticky Weed or Catchweed Bedstraw has tiny star shaped white flowers.

Wild Chervil or Cow Parsley can be found along roadsides.

Greater Celandine is a perennial in the poppy family.

Canada Violet is also called Tall White Violet.The flowers are white and their backs are purple.

Dame's Rocket have exactly four petals, a key identifier for the plant.

Some of this week's finds

Philadelphia Fleabane is related to asters.

Bugle is a dense spreading groundcover with dark green leaves with purple highlights.

Thyme-leaved speedwell is another tiny lawn flower.

Morrow's Honeysuckle is also called bush honeysuckle. It is consdiered an invasive species.

Wild Sarsaparilla is found on roadsides with partial to full shade.

Skunk Currants, Birdeye Speedwell, Pussytoes, Clintonia, Foamflower

Skunk Currants, so called because as the berries over-ripen they give off a foul smell.

Birdeye Speedwell, a very small flower, found in lawns and waste places.

Pussytoes has fuzzy white flower clusters. It's very hard to know when they are fully in flower but this bumblebee seems to know.

Clintonia or Bluebeard Lily will form blue berries.

Foamflower has a spike of white, feathery flowers which give it a frothy appearance.

Yellow Rocket

Yellow Rocket is the first of the mustards to flower. It is an invasive.

Wood Betony, Low Bush Blueberries

Wood Betony's tubular flowers have a pin wheel effect when viewed from above. It is hemiparasitic plant.

Low Bush Blueberries are beginning to bloom much to the delight of pollinators.

Lesser Celandine, Squirrel Corn, Toothwort

Lesser Celandine forms dense leafy colonies. It seemed to glow in the sunlight.

Squirrel Corn blooms after Dutchman's-breeches. It's found in rich woods as does Dutchman's-breeches.

Broad-leaved Toothwortis found in moist, rich woods.