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<\/a><\/p>\nThe leaves help identify these as Virginia Spring Beauties. A similar kind called Carolina Spring Beauties grows not too far away so I looked closely. At this park, these small pink flowers spread in pools of pink across the dead leaves. I don’t often get to see so many at once.<\/p>\n
Large White Trilliums Start Small and Keep Growing Larger as They Bloom<\/h2>\n
When I first saw the plentiful Trilliums emerging from the leaf litter as this Oakville park, I wasn’t sure what kind they were. They seemed so small and stout stemmed. First the buds opened and the small white flowers emerged but as the weeks passed they kept growing until most became ‘normal’ Trillium sized.<\/p>\n
One of the Trilliums I found also had the green colour which is probably caused by a virus<\/strong><\/a>. So far, only one seemed to have this trait.<\/p>\n I tried to look for other less common wildflowers without walking off the trails. One white flower I spotted was very short, shorter even then some of the Spring Beauties around it. It looked like a Wood Anemone but the leaves were more sharply and deeply cut than the other ones I’ve seen nearby.<\/p>\n The leaves grew on three stems set in a whorl around the flower stem. That ruled out the abundant Meadow Anemone. There are some Thimbleweeds that are simliar to this but they are usually much taller plants. For now, my best guess is Wood Anemones.<\/p>\n While I don’t expect they will stay, I also saw some other beauties in the woods.<\/p>\n All in all it\u00a0 has been rewarding to see what lurks in a small woodlot near home. I hope to keep adding to my lists on eBird and iNaturalist as the year rolls on.<\/p>\n Related Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n Join In<\/strong> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Virginia Spring Beauties and Large White Trilliums are still plentiful in this small woodlot and other winged spring beauties passed through the trees over the first few weeks of May. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[898,353,909,315,908,54,899,907,892,504],"class_list":["post-9169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rambles","tag-blue-headed-vireo","tag-chestnut-sided-warbler","tag-green-trillium","tag-jack-in-the-pulpit","tag-large-white-trilliums","tag-oakville","tag-solitary-vireo","tag-virginia-spring-beauties","tag-winston-woods","tag-wood-anemone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9169"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9186,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9169\/revisions\/9186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nWould a Wood Anemone Grow In the Woods?<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nA Few Other Spring Beauties in Oakville<\/h2>\n
<\/a>This Chestnut-sided Warbler eventually flew down low enough that I could get a clear photo.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nThis Yellow-rumped Warbler spent almost as much time chasing another one as it did catching midges.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nIf this Palm Warbler looks a little damp its because it just took a bath in a spring pond.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nThis Common Yellowthroat was more interested in catching food than in posing.<\/p>\n\n
\nDo you have any favourite “spring beauties?” Please share your views with a comment.<\/p>\n