Spring ephemerals

If you take a “wildflower walk” in the Adirondack woods this time of year, here’s what you might see. But you better hurry, they don’t last too long!

All of  these wildflowers are found in a typical hardwood forest or “beech, birch, maple forest”- (click on wildflower name):

Red trillium -Trillium erectum

Yellow trout lily -Erythronium americanum

Painted trillium -Trillium undulatum

Dwarf ginseng -Panax trifolius

Trailing arbutus -Epigaea repens

Round-leaved yellow violet -Viola rotundifolia

and last, but not least

Spring beauty -Claytonia virginica

Photo credits: All photos Brian McAllister