Tuesday, May 3, 2011

jack-in-the-pulpit, starflower, and maidenhair fern

Company’s coming for dinner. No time to write. But I do have lots to show. So let’s dive in, shall we?
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One magnolia bloom has completely opened.
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Trout lily. The only one that’s flowered so far. That’s Charlie in the background.
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A three-fer: Solomon’s Seal, false solomon’s seal in the center, and a sessile-leaf bellwort at right.
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This!! is a jack-in-the-pulpit. A baby. No flower yet.
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Maggie helped me find others.
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This knocks my socks off: it’s maidenhair fern. It just came up today, I think. Can you see the incipient leaves are triangular?P1060670
Also, if you know what maidenhair fern looks like when it’s all opened up, you can see how the Y-shaped bit at left, above, will open up into the circular pattern that so characterizes maidenhair. (It’s like, the ONE fern I can ID.)
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Another kind of fern…


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This is an apple tree starting to leaf out…
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A haze of fluorescent green…
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…which turns out to be largely sugar maple flowers.
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The first starflower I’ve seen this year…
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A sea of Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense)…
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…including one that’s formed flowers. They don’t flower every year, apparently. The first year, they have one leaf, and they come back the second year with two leaves and a flower. Or so I recall.
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This is the mystery azalea (?!) in the yard, first chronicled here on April 15th.
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I think the flowers look like tiny barnacles filled with spiders, but that’s just me.

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