Northland Nature: Spring wildflowers in the wetlands

Northland Nature: Spring wildflowers in the wetlands

May gave us plenty of flowers in many locations. It began with the ephemerals of the forest floor. The scattered hepaticas and bellworts were mixed with the abundant bloodroots and spring beauties while yellow and white trout-lilies filled in with large-flowered trilliums. Indeed, there were times and places where it was hard to not see these white flowers of three petals, three sepals and three leaves — trilliums. Fading in the shade, they were…