Several of our natural areas are closed during firearm season, which runs November 16 - December 17, 2024
Natural Area Closings
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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