#illinoiswildflowers

You little firecracker. #dollseyes #whitebaneberry #actaea #actaeapachypoda #illinois #illinoisplants #illinoiswildflowers #wildflower #nativeplants

Doll’s eyes/white baneberry was on a tear in the woods over the weekend. #dollseyes #whitebaneberry #actaea #actaeapachypoda #ranunculaceae #woodland #woodlandplants #illinois #illinoiswildflowers #nativeplants #wildflowers

Small-flowered buttercup (mystery plant of last week), with a big rosette of great mullein lurking in the background.

Damn you, bloodroot!! Why must you toy with my heart?!

Hepatica, a luminous, elfin beauty of early spring. The blooms stand on furry, purple stalks and the petioles of the tri-lobed leaves stretch far out in front of the plant. If you see the flowers but not the leaves, sweep back the leaf litter around it, they’re probably hiding.

Pretty sure this is baby wild geranium? Totes loving this fluorescent hot pink edging they get when they first emerge.

Spring beauty, an insouciant early bloomer.

Dutchman’s… breech? Just the one breech here.

Baby cutleaf toothwort and baby trillium, early spring bff’s.

Bloodroot is surely one of the most delicate of the totally metal-sounding spring ephemerals.

Sharp-lobed hepatica should be ready to pop before too long here.