5-21 Red Clover

 5-21

Red Clover, Pink Moccasin Flower and Early Azalea are among the day's flowerings.

John

Red Clover

Pink Moccasin Flower

Early Azalea

5-20 Pineapple Weed

 5-20

Pineapple Weed is an alien species. It grows and barnyards, along roadsides, in fields and even in hard packed gravel parking lots.

One-flowered Cancerroot is a parasitic native plant of woods and thickets.

John

Pineapple Weed

One-flowered Cancerroot

One-flowered Cancerroot

5-19 Bladdernut

 5-19

Bladdernut is in flower. The fruits of this shrub are papery capsules up to 2" long.

Red Osier Dogwood is also starting to open a few flowers.

And Red Baneberry's flowers can be seen in thickets and along road edges.

John

Bladdernut

Red Osier Dogwood

Red Baneberry

5-18 Common Barberry

 5-18

Common Barberry has opened racemes of bright yellow flowers.

English Plantain is flowering in lawns and waste places.

And a Wood Turtle, newly emerged from hibernation, basked on a log, displaying its diagnostic red legs.

John

Common Barberry

English Plantain

Wood Turtle

5-17 Blackberry

 5-17

Low Running Blackberry, Dame's Rocket and Virginia Waterleaf are among the day's flowerings.

John

Low running Blackberry

Dame's Rocket

Virginia Waterleaf

5-16 Grove Sandwort

 5-16

Blunt-leaved Sandwort, AKA Grove Sandwort, is said to favor open woods and gravelly shores. I find it along roads and trails.

Canadian Mayflower, AKA Wild Lily-of-the-Valley, is an extremely common woodland plant.

John

Grove Sandwort

Canadian Mayflower

5-15 Flowering Dogwood

 5-15

Flowering Dogwood, which was once fairly common, is now known from just 2 sites in Vermont.

And Common Blue-eyed grass, a diminutive relative if Irises, is flowering in old fields.

John

5-14 Herb Robert

5-14

Herb Robert is opening a few flowers.

Wild Madder is frosting fields and thickets.

And the bronze leaves of Carpet Bugle are almost as distinctive as its flowers.

John

Herb Robert

Wild Madder

Carpet Bugle

5-13 Pennsylvania Bitter Cress

 5-13

Pennsylvania Bitter Cress is a common inhabitant of swamps and wet meadows. Starflower favors moist woods. And Pale Corydalis is most often found in rocky or ledgy places.

John

Pennsylvania Bitter Cress

Star Flower

Pale Corydalis

5-12 Tall Buttercups

 5-12

Tall Buttercups are starting to grace fields and roadsides. And the leaves of Wild Sarsaparilla overtop its triple umbels of tiny green flowers.

John

Wild Sarsaparilla

Tall Buttercup

5-11 Solomon's Seal

 5-11

The paired yellow-green flowers of Solomon's Seal dangle below alternate leaves.

John

5-10 Chervil

 5-10

chervil - another of the aggressive invasives - is cropping up along Rte. 30.

And Thyme-leaved Speedwell is flecking my lawn.

John

Thyme-leaved Speedwell

Chervil

5-9 Common Fleabane

 5-9

Common Fleabane is coloring fields and unmown lawns. Star Flowered Solomon's Seal favors sandy banks.

John

Common Fleabane

Star Flowered Solomon's Seal

Into the Woods with Lynn

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnTqTdoV4uQ&t=10s

Hope this works and you can watch this wanderings with me.

5-8 Goldthread

 5-8

The white flowers and evergreen leaves of Goldthread dot moist woods and bogs.

Fringed Polygala is said to favor moist woods but I find it along dry roadsides. John

5-7 Foam-flower

 5-7

Foam-flower is gracing rich woods especially areas with a little extra moisture.

John

5-6 Striped Maple

 5-6

The pendulous flower clusters of Striped Maple dangle below its leaves.

And in moist rich woodlands Clintonia, AKA Bluebead Lily, is opening its first flowers.

John

5-5 Golden Alexanders

 5-5

Golden Alexanders is starting to flower. Common cinquefoil is not far behind.

John

Golden Alexanders

Common Cinquefoil

5-4 Celandine

 5-4

Celandine and Tartarian Honeysuckle - both aliens - are starting to flower.

Wood Betony which may be either yellow or red is native.

John

Wood Betony

Wood Betony

Tartarian Honeysuckle

Tartarian Honeysuckle

Celandine

5-3 Speedwell

 5-3

Both Germander Speedwell and Corn Speedwell are starting to flower.

John

Corn Speedwell

Germander Speedwell

5-2 Dwarf Ginseng

 5-2

Dwarf Ginseng and Leatherleaf are both in flower and the lustrous male catkins of Sweet Gale have an almost flower-like quality.

John

Dwarf Ginseng

Leatherleaf

Sweet Gale

5-1 Jack-in-the-Pulpit

5-1 

Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Toothwort and Painted Trillium are all starting to flower. Garter snakes are active. And Black Fly hatches are underway. John

Jack-in-the-Pulpit

Toothwort

Painted Trillium