Spring is Bustin' Out All Over!

 Well, it sure took a while.  But then, WHAM! It went from below freezing last week to 85 degrees two days in a row this week.  That sure did the trick, regarding our spring wildflowers.  I've been tearing around from woods to woods trying to keep up with what posies are poppin' up, so here's a list of them, in the order in which I found them blooming (at least, so far):

Spring Whitlow Grass (Draba verna)

Snow Trillium (Trillium nivale)

Leatherwood (Dirca palustris)

English Violet, white form (Viola odorata "Alba")

Round-leaf Violet (Viola rotundifolia)

Round-leaf Hepatica (Hepatica americana)

Early Blue Cohosh (Caulophyllum giganteum)

Yellow Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum)

Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)

Red Trillium (Trillium erectum)

Dutchman's Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria)

And I also found a couple of early spring fungi, both of them in the Sac Fungus group, according to my old mushroom guides.

Devil's Urn (Urnula craterium)

Scarlet Cup (Sarcoscypha austriaca)

I'm sure I could find many other flowers if I extended my woods walks now, but we might have a few days of delay ahead, since our temps are now going to plunge back below freezing at night for several days this coming week. Luckily, most of our earliest native wildflowers around here have evolved to cope with late freezes.