For a short time each spring, tiny wildflowers spring up from the forest floor, giving the forest a magical feel. Many of the forest flowers are white and at first glance they all look the same. When I looked more closely, though, I discovered a wide variety of petal shapes and patterns.
Within this group of three flowers, I can identify only the middle one, which I am pretty sure is a Star Chickweed (Stellaria pubera). If you happen to recognize the others, I would appreciate your help in identifying them. Thanks.
UPDATE: Steve Gingold has identified the first flower as Bloodroot and the third one as Wood Anemone. Thanks, Steve.
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The first is Bloodroot and the third is Wood Anemone. NIce to see these as you are weeks ahead of us. All nice shots, Mike.
Thanks, Steve, for the assist. I was thinking that one of them might be bloodroot, but the distinctions started to blur for me.
Happy to help, MIke. I am not a botanist but do enjoy photographing our wildflowers and these are among the first we see.
I have also seen some bluets, spring beauties, violets (I think) and a few others that I may feature in another posting.
These are wonderful images, Mike. I love how you captured the texture.
I agree with Steve!
Thanks, Molly. When it comes to identifying flowers, I am pretty much a beginner. 🙂
Very Nice Mike! Love the detail!
Gorgeous captures of these delicate beauties, Mike!
Wonderful white flowers of the forest, great photos.
Thanks. There are so many different ones–I am pretty sure that I captured images of only a small sample of them.
Wow spelled backwards is wow.
Beautiful and delicate! It is nice to take the time to look at the details.
Perfect and exquisite exposures, Mike. (White confounds amateurs like me. 😉 )
Love these shots.
I too love all the tiny beauties that adorn the forest floor at this time of year. Have you seen the tiny white flowers with pink lines? They are too small for my phone’s camera to capture, but so pretty and delicate. And last week I saw some Trout Lilies in bloom, which I posted 2 images of in Facebook. I didn’t know what they were at the time but a former student of mine ID’ed them for me. They are such interesting plants!
I believe the tiny ones with pink lines are called spring beauties. I photographed some and may post one in another posting on forest flowers soon. I saw your trout lilies in Facebook and will be on the lookout to see if I can find some too.
I think you may be right. Some of them are lined with different colors (purple? blue?) and the ones I see have pink lines. But they are certainly similar. Thank you!
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The second one looks like one of the chickweeds.
I’m not sure how I missed this post.
Thanks, I can use all the help I can get with the spring wildflowers.
Always happy to lend a hand if I can.
All three of these flowers are so lovely! My backyard is bursting with wild white violets with petals that are faintly tinged with lavender, and also many of the more usual solid purple ones. They are such a delight that I cancelled the spring clean-up of the yard until late April! I am so missing Benjamin and our “Adventurings” this year. Together we always enjoyed all the flowering plants and flowering trees, the bugs and the bees, the rocks and even the fungus. It had cost us nothing other than our time and the pay back was incalculable. I will be content to get in touch with nature through your beautiful photos and written information…and I am grateful! Happy Easter! Thank-you, Mr. Mike!
White violets? It sounds like a contradiction in terms, but I am sure that they are amazingly beautiful. I think that we all long for a return to our “normal” lives, to the familiar and comfortable ways that we were used to doing things. It looks like it will take quite a while for that to happen. In the mean time, don’t forget to take care of yourself. Happy Easter.