Trout lilies
Wildflowers are blooming beneath hardwood forests, a favourite time of year for me and my camera. Trout lilies grow in colonies that can be - can you believe this - as much as 300 years old!
Dutchman's breeches
The blooms are said to resemble pantaloons hanging upside-down. Seeds of Dutchman's breeches are spread by ants.
Canadian wild ginger
Usually the heart-shaped leaves are seen first since the flower is hidden below them where beetles and other crawling insects fertilize them.
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37 comments:
I always love your spring wildflowers photos!
Okay, thanks to your posting I am heading to the hiking trails.
How cool that their colonies come back for so many years!
I love your woodland flowers. The Dutchman Breeches are too cute! I can definately see the pantaloons.
Hugs,
Jann
love the flowers. Different than what I'm used to seeing. Beautiful photos!
Add some fiddle-heads and wild leeks and poof... dinner. :)
Lovely photos and informative post.
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Both those flowers are new to me and so interesting, thanks for sharing.
Very pretty. New Spring flowers are always so lovely. Nice images.
The lillies are esp. nice - and I didn't know we had such a thing as wild ginger!
Love the names of your wildflowers EG, and 300 year old colonies, how fantastic! I bet they look wonderful when they come out in the masses.
your first two shots and blooms reminded me SO much of my childhood in Wisconsin! loved those wildflowers!
Such interesting-looking woodland flowers. And I appreciate your descriptions. :)
Thank you for sharing at Rural Thursday this week. xoxo
I had never heard of trout lilies before. I googled them and they, or at least a variant, grow in some of the preserves and parks of Oklahoma.
Lovely, EG, especially the trout lilies!
Woodland plants are a favorite topic of mine. We have many types growing in the woods but it has been so wet I just haven't been exploring yet.
Love the window variety. MB
Woodland flowers are great. Thanks for sharing these!
Beautiful! I love the wild flowers.
Woodland wildflowers, the stuff of fairy tales. Love the britches.
Darla
Thank you for the visit. Enjoying this lovely photos of overlooked flowers.
Beautiful nature shots! :)
Love your wood lot flowers. I need to get out in our woods.
I love wildflowers -- familiar with the middle one, the other two are new to me. Amazing to learn about the trout lily colonies.
You have some very wild wildflowers. I mean, really! Pantaloons? Of course I would not know a pantaloon from a looney tune, but still! And those trout lilies hang the wrong way. What's that all about? And before you say it, I refute any comment that trout lily colonies are as old as I am!
Put that in your ginger and snap it!
Heh, heh!
Did you find all these flowers in York Regional Forest?
I just came back from UK, lots of wild flowers blooming there.
Great photos of the wildflowers. The trout lilies are lovely!
These are beautiful wildflowers. I really like the Dutchman Breeches.
I always ;pve trout lilies...and dutchman's breeches...and just about any woods plant.
I really like your wildflowers shots. The first one almost resembles the Fawn Lilies that we have here in BC.
Such interesting and different flowers! I really enjoyed hearing about them and seeing the photos!
Such lovely shots!
I can see a face in the wild ginger! Or am I just going mad?
It is always interesting to see flowers that are unknown to me - but obviously from spring!
Oh it looks like you are just a little ahead of us I am waiting for trout lilies and dutchmen britches.
Thanks for the photo of the ginger I have never noticed it here I will be taking another look. B
that's a pretty amazing fact about the trout lilies. loved your pics today.
Dogtooth colonies can be 300 years old?!?! How can they tell? Do you know why so many of the leaves seem to have no flowers associated with them? I have never seen wild ginger. May be too cold here...
Love these wildflower shots! Please feel free to post them up on Floral Friday Fotos - I am sure the people visiting there would love to see them:
http://floralfridayfoto.blogspot.com/
I love all these! There are huge patches of trout lilies in the woods behind my house.
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