What flowering plant starts out looking like this, and within days develops into one of our most familiar spring ephemerals? (Guesses can be made under “Comments.”) Tomorrow’s post will identify today’s.
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Skunk Cabbage? Linde
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April 29, 2015 at 7:14 am
Bloodroot!
April 29, 2015 at 7:15 am
Bloodroot…. already blooming down in Massachusetts.
April 29, 2015 at 7:23 am
BLOODROOT
April 29, 2015 at 7:24 am
Bloodroot >
April 29, 2015 at 7:30 am
bloodroot!
April 29, 2015 at 7:31 am
jack in the pulpit?
April 29, 2015 at 7:32 am
Mayapple
April 29, 2015 at 7:33 am
Bloodroot! We’re a ways away in Calais.
April 29, 2015 at 7:33 am
Bloodroot
April 29, 2015 at 7:33 am
Bloodroot
April 29, 2015 at 7:35 am
Bloodroot
April 29, 2015 at 7:38 am
Trillium ?
April 29, 2015 at 7:52 am
bloodroot?
April 29, 2015 at 7:52 am
marsh marigold
April 29, 2015 at 7:57 am
bloodroot? jack in the pulpit?
April 29, 2015 at 7:59 am
Rhubarb
April 29, 2015 at 8:02 am
Shunk cabbage
April 29, 2015 at 8:04 am
Sanguinaria canadensis
April 29, 2015 at 8:12 am
I Think it is rhubarb.
April 29, 2015 at 8:17 am
is it bloodroot?
April 29, 2015 at 8:25 am
I’m obviously a sleepyhead, as the earlier online bloodroot answers have flooded your comment box. Just back from SC-weather there as weird as it was in VT. Have you found any evidence of botanical shifting as there has been with the avian shift northward?
April 29, 2015 at 8:29 am
Not that I’m aware of, Penny, but a true, blue botanist would know!
April 29, 2015 at 7:51 pm
bloodroot
April 29, 2015 at 8:35 am
Looks like bloodroot.
April 29, 2015 at 8:40 am
Bloodroot of course! We have had ours in bloom for 3 days now, a great carpet of bloodroot. My favorite spring flower. It spreads and spreads each year, more and more.
betsy
April 29, 2015 at 8:40 am
Finally, a mystery I know the answer to–bloodroot! I love that flower!
April 29, 2015 at 8:41 am
Bloodroot coming up?
Janice Vien RN The Yoga Connection LLC http://www.yogaconnection.us 603-863-1798
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April 29, 2015 at 8:45 am
Bloodroot (sanguinaria canadensis)
April 29, 2015 at 8:46 am
Let me add my voice to the chorus: bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis).
April 29, 2015 at 8:52 am
Oh! My reaction was jack-in-the-pulpit. But the leaf it totally wrong!
April 29, 2015 at 8:54 am
Jack isn’t exactly ephemeral! Brain hasn’t engaged yet.
April 29, 2015 at 8:56 am
Bloodroot
April 29, 2015 at 9:00 am
is it rhubarb?
April 29, 2015 at 9:01 am
Bloodroot
April 29, 2015 at 9:09 am
Bloodroot!!
April 29, 2015 at 9:17 am
Sanguinaria canadensis, commonly known as Bloodroot or Mayflower
April 29, 2015 at 9:18 am
bloodroot
April 29, 2015 at 9:20 am
bloodroot?
April 29, 2015 at 9:28 am
May Apple??
April 29, 2015 at 9:34 am
Hope you are taking out a rubber yoga mat to lie on for these photos-wet knees and tummy otherwise. Nice picture!
April 29, 2015 at 9:54 am
looks like bloodroot
April 29, 2015 at 9:55 am
Skunk cabbage
April 29, 2015 at 9:57 am
Bloodroot, otherwise called Papoose Flower due to the protective wrapping look of the leaves around the emerging flower.
April 29, 2015 at 9:58 am
Blood root
April 29, 2015 at 9:59 am
Rhubarb!!
April 29, 2015 at 10:04 am
BLOODROOT!
April 29, 2015 at 10:06 am
It’s rhubarb!
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April 29, 2015 at 10:10 am
Bloodroot! Yea! spring has come!
April 29, 2015 at 10:46 am
Easy-peasy, bloodroot!
April 29, 2015 at 11:11 am
Bloodroot
April 29, 2015 at 11:21 am
Bloodroot. Love it!
April 29, 2015 at 11:27 am
Bloodroot!
April 29, 2015 at 12:22 pm
I am pretty sure it’s BLOODROOT! I’ve got lots looking like that right now :-)) In fact I don’t know what else it could be!
April 29, 2015 at 12:50 pm
Perhaps bloodroot, but not yet here in my Portsmouth garden.. Thanks again Mary for the delight you bring to so many…Jenny Sawyer
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April 29, 2015 at 12:56 pm
I’d say bloodroot.
April 29, 2015 at 1:04 pm
Sanguinaria canadensis (Blood-root).
April 29, 2015 at 1:48 pm
bloodroot
April 29, 2015 at 2:56 pm
Bloodroot – already blooming on Rice Road
April 29, 2015 at 2:58 pm
Marsh Marigold?
April 29, 2015 at 3:24 pm
Yes, now that I see all these comments and check my old reliable guide…bloodroot!
April 29, 2015 at 3:29 pm
bloodroot.
April 29, 2015 at 4:01 pm
Bloodroot?
April 29, 2015 at 4:20 pm
My guess is Twin leaf Jeffersonia diphylla, maybe because of the red tint to it
April 29, 2015 at 4:28 pm
Bloodroot?
April 29, 2015 at 9:07 pm