Although most of the ground atop Beech Hill is still brown with last year’s leaves, the buds of both wake-robin (Trillium erectum, also known as purple or red trillium) and sessile-leaved bellwort (Uvularia sessilifolia, also called wild oats) are thinking ahead. I know from past years that the wildflowers atop Beech Hill will be blooming by May Day, so yesterday I took a quick dog-walk up the hill and back to catch a sneak peek at spring in the making. Sure enough, I found buds amongst the brown: a foretaste of next week’s flowers.
This is my quick and dirty contribution to this week’s Photo Friday theme, Brown. Given that I wanted to blog these pictures anyway, I figured the fact that their background is brown qualified as ample excuse.
Hoarded Ordinaries 
Apr 25, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Be sure to show us what they look like when they bloom! Curious minds want to know! 🙂
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Apr 26, 2009 at 11:09 am
You bet! I consider it my solemn responsibility as a conscientious blogger. 😉
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Apr 27, 2009 at 10:17 am
Lorianne, your delicate yellow bud looks like Sessile Bellwort (or Wild Oats).
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Apr 27, 2009 at 10:24 am
Yes, that’s exactly what it is. The first time I saw it, I knew it was some sort of bellwort, but I didn’t know what kind. (The one I was familiar with back in Ohio was the “large flowered” variety, Uvularia grandiflora.) I was tickled pink to discover that sessile bellwort (Uvularia sessilifolia) was also called “wild oats”: far more flamboyant-sounding than my usual tame ways. 😉
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Apr 27, 2009 at 10:39 am
I am a tad envious – here in Ontario it will be several weeks before we see Wild Oats blooming in the woods. Bloodroot, Hepaticas and a few specimens of Dutchman’s Breeches are out here and there in the wilds, but that is it.
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