Early Spring Blooming Plants of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

Friends of the Wild Flower Garden

Early Spring Photos

Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary

There are few lovelier sights than finding in sheltered nooks where the sun has rested, patches of hepaticas, snow trillium and bloodroot, the real harbingers of spring. Former Curator Martha Crone.

More photos of each plant and additional plant information can be found at the link on the plant name. Alternate common names for plants are listed in ( ).

Dutchman's Breeches (*Dicentra cucullaria*) growing midway between the Woodland and Upland Gardens.

Bloodroot (*Sanguinaria canadensis*) in the Woodland Garden in many places.

Prairie Smoke (Old Man's Whisker's) (*Geum triflorum*) in the Upland Garden.

Sharp-=lobed Hepatica — Sharp-lobed Hepatica (*Amenone acutiloba*) in the Woodland Garden.

Yellow Trout-lily — Yellow Troutlily (Dogtooth Violet) (*Erythronium americanum*) in the Woodland Garden.

Eastern Leatherwood (*Dirca palustris*). A shrub growing on the patio area in front of the Martha Crone Shelter in the Woodland Garden.

White Trout-lily — White Troutlily (White Fawn Lily) (*Erythronium albidum*) in the Woodland Garden.

False rue-anemone — False Rue Anemone (Eastern False Rue Anemone) (*Enemion biternatum*). Found in the Woodland Garden, with many clumps on the west most trail.

Marsh Marigold (*Caltha palustris*). Usually blooming in the Wetland after mid-April.

Skunk Cabbage (*Symplocarpus foetidus*) with leaves emerging in the wetland.

Pussy Willow (*Salix discolor*) Woodland Garden wetland area

Cut-leaf toothwort — Cut-leaved Toothwort (*Cardamine concatenata*.) Woodland Garden

Large Flowered Bellwort — Large-flowered Bellwort (*Uvularia grandiflora*) Woodland Garden

Wild Oats (Sessileleaf Bellwort) (*Uvularia sessilifolia*). Woodland Garden.

Two-leaf Toothwort — Two-leaved Toothwort (Crinkleroot). (*Cardamine diphylla*) Woodland Garden.

Wild Ginger (Canadian Wild Ginger) (*Asarum canadense*) Woodland Garden

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