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.)
White trillium
White trillium
Red trilium
Rue anemone
Sharp-leaved hepatica
Squirrel corn
Perfoliate bellwort
Large-flowered Bellwort
(in bloom and in seed)
Miterwort
Gaywings
Youthful ostrich fern jesting
Christmas fern
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
Mayapple in bloom, toad's eye view
Mayapple in bloom
Mayapple with immature fruit
Yellow violet
Columbine
Hawthorn
Purple violet
Starflower
Foamflower
False Solomon's Seal
Mid-May
False Solomon's Seal
Mid-September
Solomon's Seal
Phlox
Sweet Cicely
A wild azalea
Herb Robert
Canada Mayflower
Wild geranium
Also known as Cranesbill
Pink Lady's Slipper
Sarsaparilla
Baneberry
Red Baneberry
White Baneberry, aka Doll's Eyes
Maple-leaf Viburnum
Dame's Rocket
(not-native)
Rattlesnake Weed
Fleabane
Blackberry
Mutliflora Rose (non-native)
Virginia Waterleaf
Maple-leaved Waterleaf (blooms usually hidden below leaves)
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