5-16 Grove Sandwort, Red Clover, Moccasin Flower, Canadian Tiger Swallowtail

5-16 Blunt-leaved, AKA Grove Sandwort is flowering in open woods. on gravelly shores and along roadsides.

Red Clover wil soon dot fields and meadows.

Moccasin Flower, AKA Pink Lady's Slipper, can be seen in woods, usually under oak or pine.

Big yellow and black Canadian Tiger Swallowtail butterflies are seemingly everwhere! John

5-15 Pale Corydalis, Bunchberry, Highbush Blueberry

5-15 Rocky places are home to Pale Corydalis, AKA Pink Corydalis.

Bunchberry, AKA Dwarf Cornel, blankets cool woods and bogs - swamps.

Pastures and woods host Highbush Blueberry, AKA Swamp Blueberry. John

5-14 Tall Buttercup, Dame's Rocket, Common Barberry, Autumn Olive

5-14 Fields and meadows are home to Tall Buttercup.

Fields, roadsides and open woods host Dame's Rocket, AKA Dame's Violet, a troublesome garden escape.

Common Barberry can be seen in thickets and old pastures.

Thickets and waste places are infested with the Asian invasive Autumn Olive. John

5-13 Bugle, Mayapple, American Bladdernut, Common Spring Moth

5-13 Lawns and roadsides are home to Bugle, a garden escape.

Mayapple, AKA Mandrake, is flowering in rich woods and pastures.

Moist thickets and banks host American Bladdernut, so called because of its inflated, three-pointed seed pods.

Common Spring moths are flying. Host plants for this species are black and honey locusts. John

5-12 Dwarf Dandelion, Golden Alexander, Wild Sarsaparilla

5-12 Dry, sandy soils host Dwarf Dandelion.

Meadows, shores, open woods and roadsides are home to Golden Alexanders.

Wild Sarsaparilla is a common woodland plant often blanketing shady roadsides. John

5-11 Starflower, English Plantain, Yellow Clintonia, Thyme-leaved Speedwell

5-11 Moist woods are home to Starflower.

English Plantain is a common and troublesome introduction found in lawns and fields.

In moist hilly locations Yellow Clintonia, AKA Bluebead, often forms dense colonies.

Lawns are a favored habitat for Thyme-leaved Speedwell an extremely tiny introduced species. John

5-10 Wild Azalea, Bird's -eye Speedwell, Red Baneberry, White Baneberry

5-10 Ledges, roadsides and rocky riverbanks will soon be brightened by Wild Azalea.

Bird's-eye, AKA Germander, Speedwell - an alien escape - blankets old home sites and roadsides.

Both Red and White Baneberries are in flower. Look for them in woodlands, thickets and along roadsides. John

Red Baneberry

White Baneberry

5-9 Swamp Dewberry, Chervil

5-9 Swamps, open woods and clearings are home to Swamp Dewberry. The berries of this species are quite acidic.

Fields, weedy places and roadsides are home to Wild Chervil, an introduced and troubling invasive European species. John

5-8 Goldthread, Swamp Saxifrage, Pennsylvania Bitter Cress

5-8 Moist woods and bogs are home to Goldthread, a delicate little member of the buttercup family.

Swamp Saxifrage is starting its flowering.

Pennsylvania Bitter Cress can be seen in swamps, wet meadows and ditches often with its feet wet. John

5-7 Common Cinquefoil, Philadelphia Fleabane, White Chokecherry

5-7 Old fields and open woods are home to Common Cinquefoil.

Common or Philadelphia Fleabane is flowering in fields, open woods and lawns.

Thickets and edges are dotted with the dense racemes of white Chokecherry flowers. John

5-6 Forget-me-not, Pussytoes, Yellow Rocket

5-6 In wet places Forget-me-nots are flowering.

One of a dozen or so diffucult to identify Pussytoe species is lightening woods, fields and banks.

Roadsides and meadows are home to Common Winter Cress, AKA Yellow Rocket, a fast growing mustard family member. John

5-5 Celandine, Fringed Polygala

5-5 Damp soil along roadsides and in waste places host Celandine, an alien escape easily identified by its yellow sap.

Moist woods are home to Fringed Polygala, AKA Flowering Wintergreen or Gaywings, a member of the Milkwort family. John

5-4 Foamflower, Skunk Currant

5-4 Rich woods are home to Foamflower, AKA False Miterwort.

Cold, damp woods are home to Skunk Currant so called because when bruised it has a skunklike disagreeable odor.

Also seen: Baltimore Oriole and Lilacs. John

5-3 Red-berried Elder, Corn Speedwell, Painted Trillium

5-3 The creamy white flowers of Red-berried Elder can be seen in rocky woods.

Fields, open woods, rocky places and lawns are home to the tiny blue or white flowers of Corn Speedwell.

Cool moist woods are good habitat for Painted Trillium. John

5-2 Japanese Barberry, Wood Betony, Pin Cherry

5-2 Open woodland, thickets and edges are all suitable habitat for aggressively invasive Japanese Barberry.

Dry woods and borders are home to Wood Betony, AKA Lousewort.

Woods, clearings and burnt areas are home to Pin cherry, AKA Bird or Fire Cherry. John

5-1 Cherry, Yellow Violets, Morrow's Honeysuckle, Woodchuck

5-1 Sweet, AKA Mazzard, Cherry, a native to Europe and Asia, is now widely established here.

Smooth Yellow Violets and the very similar downy Yellow Violets are both in flower: smooth yelow in moist woods, downy yellow in dry woods.

Morrow's Honeysuckle, an early flowering Asian invasive, gives the first hints of the many other honeysuckle species that will soon flower.

My first Woodchuck of the season.

Also seen Striped Skunk and Cabbage White butterfly. John