Early Spring Wildflowers

Early spring wildflowers bloom before leaves emerge on trees overhead, which block the sunlight. Between now and mid June, you can see these spring wildflowers (and many more!) throughout woodlands in our natural areas, but are exceptionally abundant in the Mundy Wildflower Garden. Click on the images below to learn more about them.

Bloodroot

Sanguinaria canadensis

Sharp-Lobed Hepatica

Hepatica acutiloba

Marsh Marigold

Caltha palustris

Skunk Cabbage

Symplocarpus foetidus

Cut-Leaved Toothwort

Cardamine concatenata

Two-Leaved Toothwort

Cardamine diphylla

Early Blue Cohosh

Caulophyllum giganteum

Carolina Spring Beauty

Claytonia caroliniana

Squirrel Corn

Dicentra canadensis

Dutchman’s Breeches

Dicentra cucullaria

Trout Lily

Erythronium americanum

False Mermaid-Weed

Floerkea proserpinacoides

Wild Geranium

Geranium maculatum

Foam Flower

Tiarella cordifolia

Red Trillium

Trillium erectum

White Trillium

Trillium grandiflorum

Merrybells

Uvularia grandiflora

Golden Alexanders

Zizia aurea