#springephemerals — Public Fediverse posts

Walking through the woods, I'm reminded of the reasons why we work so hard restoring this crappy old Iowa woodlot. For years, pigs rooted through it for acorns. Now, we've completed five years of controlled burns and undergrowth removal. Intensive invasive weeding. Seed scattering and letting the remaining seed bank respond has begun to (re)create a beautiful place for a walk with the dogs.

#NaturePhotography
#OakWoodlandRestoration
#SpringEphemerals
#Rural
#Iowa

corn

#bloomscrolling #springephemerals

honorable mention

#bloomscrolling #springephemerals

some of the hundreds

#bloomscrolling #springephemerals #trillium

I put all my trillium pictures from the other day here (with some bonus wildflowers):

https://write.as/freeanduneasy/trillium-grandiflorum

#springephemerals #bloomscolling #trillium #wildflowers

trillium grandiflorum guards the portal

#portals #bloomscrolling #wildflowers #trillium #springephemerals

part 2

#Bloomscrolling #Wildflowers #springephemerals

Every year near the end of April a local naturalist leads a kids wildflower walk. This is our third year attending (part 1)

#Bloomscrolling #Wildflowers #springephemerals

Quick hike at Afton State Park today. Spring is still early for birds and flowers. Zeena found the smallest bloodroot flower ever!

#Huskies #Hiking #SpringEphemerals

get em while supplies last

#bloomscrolling #wildflowers #springephemerals

summer is nigh; long live the spring

#bloomscrolling #wildflowers #springephemerals

My first wildflower of the year: Sagebrush buttercup (Ranunculus glabberimus)

What a wonderful little surprise. There were just a few that had popped up in this sunny patch in the park

#NativePlants #wildflowers #springEphemerals

Galanthus is blooming - USDA zone 6 !
#SpringEphemerals #BloomScrolling

Excellent newsletter on spring ephemerals (part 2 of 2)

https://open.substack.com/pub/theoysterlog/p/spring-ephemerals-pt-2?r=3ok5e&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#Wildflowers #SpringEphemerals

Welcome back, Few-Flowered Shooting Stars / Primula pauciflora! This one brings all the bumblebees to the yard, for "rumble pollination" 🥵

#NativePlants #NativePlantsPNW #Bloomscrolling #wildflowers #ShootingStars #gardening #pollinators #SpringEphemerals

A large trout lily colony may be centuries old; centuries of early-spring sunshine, banked before the canopy above unfurls and released in a second, ground-level radiance.

#troutlilies #springephemerals #Erythroniumamericanum #flowers #nature #photography

this redbud was shedding all over the sidewalk! i never saw them do this in NC
#springEphemerals #florespondence #nativeplants

a couple of large white trillium in the woods

#plants #WoodlandFlowers #flowers #florespondence #SpringEphemerals