and More Spring Flowers

Purple Dead Nettle (Lamium purpureum) Not a North American native, but a common winter annual.

Purple Dead Nettle at Long Hunter State Park April 2013



Yellow Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum) Common eastern native wildflower. There are two other native other Erythroniums, one blooming white.

Trout Lily at Long Hunter State Park April 2013

 

http://tnps.org/   to visit the Tennessee Native Plant Society. It’s a nice resource for plant identification and to find out where to buy nursery grown native wildflowers. (Don’t disturb the wild ecology-don’t steal plants from public lands, thanks.)

 

(All images copyright Mary Boyd 2013)