Wildflowers 2024

11/26 Lillian Anderson Arboretum, Oshtemo, Kalamazoo Co., MI:

• Bearberry / Kinnikinick (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) - berries

11/7 Aman Park, Ottawa Co., MI

• False Rue Anemone! Yes, November 7.

7/4 Bishop's Bog, Portage, Kalamazoo Co., MI:

• Tufted Loosestrife (Lysimachia thyrsiflora)
• Pickerel weed (Pontederia cordata)
• Wild blueberries
• Clustered-leaved Tick Trefoil (Hylodesmum (Desmodium) glutinosum)

7/1 Lillian Anderson Arboretum, Oshtemo Township, Kalamazoo Co., MI:

• Yellow Jewelweed (Impatiens pallida)
• Bee balm / Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) 
• Joe-Pye Weed

6/8 Bishop's Bog, Portage, Kalamazoo Co., MI:

• Arrow arum (Peltandra virginica)
• Southern Blue Flag (Iris virginica)
• Spatulate-leaved Sundew (Drosera intermedia)

4/29 Blandford Nature Center, Grand Rapids, Kent Co., MI: 

• Wild geraniums

4/22, Aman Park, Ottawa Co., MI

• Buttercups (common / Ranunculus acris)
• Cut-leaved Toothwort (Cardamine concatenata)
• Dutchman's Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria)
• Early Meadow Rue (Thalictrum dioicum)
• False Rue-Anemone (Enemion biternatum)
• Spring Beauties (Claytonia virginica)
• Spring Cress (Cardamine douglassii)
• Squirrel Corn (Dicentra canadensis)
• Trillium (common / Grandiflorum)
• Trout lilies (Erythronium americanum)
• Violets (common)
• Violets (yellow / Viola pubescens)
• Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica)
• Wild Blue Phlox (Phlox divaricata)
• Wild Ginger (Asarum canadense)
• Wintergreen berries (Gaultheria procumbens)
• Wood Betony (Pedicularis canadensis)
• Large-flowered Bellwort budded but not quite blooming

4/9, Aman Park, Ottawa Co., MI

• Trout lily
• Buttercups

4/8, Aman Park, Ottawa Co., MI (Eclipse!)

• Bloodroot
• Mayapples are up but still furled

3/29, Aman Park, Ottawa Co., MI

• Cut-leaved Toothwort (Cardamine concatenata)
• Dutchman's Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria) in the shelter of a fallen log
• False Rue-Anemone (Enemion biternatum)
• Sharp-lobed Hepatica (Hepatica acutiloba)
• Spring Beauties (Claytonia virginica)
• Wild Leeks/Ramps (Allium tricoccum) are up

3/28, Aman Park, Ottawa Co., MI

• Round-lobed Hepatica (Hepatica americana)
• Pink Spring Cress (Cardamine douglassii)

 3/16, Blandford Nature Center, Grand Rapids, Kent Co., MI

• Spicebush
• Violets