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Spring Wildflowers #3 - April 17, 2021

The forest canopy is starting to green up, which means the Spring Wildflowers better get moving to finish their lifecycle while there is still plenty of sunshine reaching the forest floor. On today's walk through the woods in southwestern Ohio we identify fifteen spring wildflowers and flowering trees. We see what the forest floor can look like when it isn't dominated by non-native invasive species like Honeysuckle and Garlic Mustard. Native species discussed include Wild Ginger (Asarum canadense), Woodland Phlox (Phlox divaricata), Small-flowered Buttercup (Ranunculus abortivus), Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica), Wild Leek (Allium tricoccum), Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum), Red Trillium or Toadshade (Trillium sessile), Golden Seal (Hydrastis canadensis), Christmas Fern (Polystichum acrostichoides), Cleavers or Annual Bedstraw (Galium aparine), Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum), Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), Butterweed (Packera glabella), Golden Ragwort or Golden Groundsel (Packera aureus), and Ohio Buckeye (Aesculus glabra). Non-native species discussed include Burning Bush (Euonymus alatus), Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata), and Amur Honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii). Oak Haven is a 60-acre private woodland in Southwestern Ohio near Cincinnati. Jim and Julie Varick both have degrees in Botany and over thirty years of experience in managing natural areas. They enjoy sharing their enthusiasm for the natural world and would like to build relationships with like-minded people to share knowledge and resources.