Spring Woodland Flowers

[pinksand]

I've been trying to be better about taking photos of plants I notice while I'm out biking in the woods. Any help in guessing their identities would be appreciated

Here are some I've seen blooming in the past couple of weeks...

Spring Beauty?




Bunchberry?

[rainbowgardener]

yes, spring beauty.

NO, definitely not bunchberry. Possibly wintergreen, but that's a guess. Are the leaves aromatic if you crush them?

??


bunchberry plant


https://macphailwoods.org/nature-guides/ ... unchberry/

bunchberry is a type of creeping dogwood and has leaves just like other dogwoods.

[pinksand]

My first guess was wintergreen but when I rubbed the leaves they didn't seem aromatic. Will they need to actually be crushed to smell them? I was also wearing mountain biking gloves so maybe the sweaty stench of the gloves masked the wintergreen lol (note: I do wash them they don't smell that bad). I'll take the gloves off next time

You're definitely right that it isn't bunchberry. I knew it was in the dogwood family, just wasn't thinking I guess.

Any ideas for the little white flowers or the last plant?

[rainbowgardener]

I think your ten petalled white flower is probably star chickweed.

I can't quite tell what I am looking at in the bottom picture, which leaves belong to the plant we are trying to identify. But just as a wild stab at it, could it be this:



cut leaf toothwort.

If not, maybe get us a better picture.

[pinksand]

Yes! They're definitely Star Chickweed and Cut Leaf Toothwort!

It's a miracle that I got any photos at all... the people I ride with aren't very patient when it comes to my interest in the woodland flora

I'll definitely try to get a better sniff the next time I see the possible wintergreen plant. I've only seen that plant in the woods about an hour from my house, the others were seen close by and every spring I wonder what they could be. It's so good to find out that they're all native as well!