Wildflower and Horsetail Rush
Wild Ginger
Dutchman's Breeches
Bloodroot
May Apples and Trout Lilies
Trout Lilies
Pileated Woodpecker damage
Hidden Falls
Marsh Marigolds fill a dry creekbed
Nate and Apollo enjoy the stream
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Spring at Big Woods State Park
Last weekend Nate and I took a trip down to the Northfield, MN area and explored Big Woods State Park. For those of you unfamiliar with the area, the Big Woods was once a huge temperate hardwood forest spanning most of southern Minnesota. Most of the trees have since been logged or cleared for farmland, but the state park preserves a part of what was once a rich forest biome. We set out in search of early spring wildflowers, hiking six miles and finding all sorts of wonderful blooms poking out of the leafy forest floor. Using Clayton Oslund's book "What's Doin' the Bloomin'?" we identified most of what we found and learned lots of interesting bits along the way!
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these pics are so pretty! i love trout lilies sooo much! did you know that they dont flower for the first few years of their lives, and once they are mature enough to start devoting energy to flowering, they only put out two leaves and one flower a year? this fact always makes me appreciate them more...
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