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Spring Ephemeral Checklist

Common names by estimated month of bloom

February

  • Skunk Cabbage

April

  • Blue Cohost
  • Early Saxifrage
  • False Hellebore
  • Red Trillium
  • White Trillium
  • Yellow Violet
  • Purple Violet
  • Wild Ginger
  • Hepatica
  • Coltsfoot
  • Trout Lily
  • Cut Leaved Toothwort

May

  • Dutchman’s Breeches
  • Bloodroot
  • Spring Beauty
  • Jack in the Pulpit
  • Miterwort
  • False Solomon’s Seal
  • Golden Alexanders
  • Common Fleabane
  • Rue Anemone
  • Fringed Polygala
  • Solomon’s Seal
  • Wild Columbine
  • Wild Geranium
  • Early Meadow Rue
  • May Apple
  • Crowfoot
  • American Bladdernut
  • Herb Robert