Photos taken in the field with a flash allow crisp portraits dramatically imposed on a black background. (In rough chronological order of blooming time, though a later shot of the species in seed is sometimes shown with the bloom.)
Skunk cabbage bloom with unfurling leaves
Bloodroot
Blue cohosh in early bloom
Blue cohosh early bloom closeup
Blue cohosh later bloom
Dutchman's breeches
Sugar maple male flowers
Trout lily
Purple cress
White trillium
White trillium
Rue anemone
Sharp-leaved hepatica
Squirrel corn
Red trillium
Long-spurred violet
Striped Maple
Perfoliate bellwort
Large-flowered Bellwort
(in bloom and in seed)
Miterwort
Gaywings
Youthful ostrich fern jesting
Christmas fern
Wild ginger
Yellow violet
Shagbark hickory leaves escape their budscales
Shagbark hickory leaves and budscale a week later (at another location)
Jack-in-the-pulpit
Choke cherry
Redbud
Flowering dogwood
Alternatve-leaved dogwood
Cut-leaved toothwort
Mayapple shoots cradling their flower buds
Mayapple unfolding
Mayapple in bloom, toad's eye view
Mayapple in bloom
Mayapples with immature fruit
Mayapple with multiple fruits
Columbine
Hawthorn
Purple violet
Starflower
Foamflower
False Solomon's Seal
Mid-May
False solomon's seal
Late May
False Solomon's Seal
Mid-September
Solomon's Seal
Bedstraw
Phlox
Sweet cicely
Sweet Cicely
A wild azalea
Herb Robert
Canada Mayflower
Wild geranium
Also known as Cranesbill
Pink Lady's Slipper
Sarsaparilla
Red Baneberry
Baneberry (species unkown)
Red Baneberry
White Baneberry, aka Doll's Eyes
Maple-leaf Viburnum
Dame's Rocket
(not-native)
Mountain maple
Mountain maple
Rattlesnake Weed
Fleabane
Blackberry
Maple-leaved Waterleaf (blooms usually hidden below leaves)
Virginia Waterleaf
Swamp buttercup
Cow parsnip
Kentucky yellow wood
(planted)
One of several "False Indigo" Bushes
(Amorpha fruticosa)
Mutliflora Rose (non-native)
Purple-flowering raspberry
Hawkweed
Royal Fern
Black-eyed Susans
Wild rose
Bergamot
Pale Jewelweed
Orange Jewelweed
Joe-pye Weed
White snake root.
Makes milk toxic if eaten by cows
A Helianthus sunflower. Found in prominent beds at the entrance to Buttermilk State Park. See discussion of possible species here.
White wood-aster
New England Aster
Mistflower