Spring Ephermerals
Rue Anemone Thalictrum thalictroides
Wild Geranium/Geranium maculatum
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Wild geranium is abundant in rich woodlands in Illinois. Characteristics to use in identifying the plant are a one to two foot hairy stem and pairs of five-parted, toothed leaves that may measure four to five inches across. In April and May, pink or purplish flowers appear. As the season progresses, the leaves are
This member of the buttercup family has leaves with three lobes and small white or pink flowers. It blooms in April and May and is found in dry or moist open woods throughout Illinois.
The white trout lily is commonly called the white dog-tooth violet. This Illinois spring wildflower grows in woods and occasionally in fields.
White Trout Lily Erythronium albidum
May Apple/ Podophyllum Peltatum
Spring Beauty/Claytonia Virginica
Water Leaf/ Hydrophyllum appendiculatum
The stem is light green or slightly reddish green. There is a single central vein along the length of each leaf. The petals are white with pink stripes. These stripes vary from pale pink to bright pink. The flowers open up on warm sunny days, and close during cloudy weather or at night.
The stalks on the May apple are light green to pale reddish green. The plant also has large green lobes.
The stems zigzag between leaves are light green, and both short and hairy.
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Jack-in-the-pulpit
Jack-in-the-pulpit produces one to two 3-lobed leaves 12 to 18 inches high. The leaves appear in early spring as does the flower, which is composed of a green-and-purple striped spathe bent over at its tip to partly hide the green clublike spadix.