Wildflowers: March, 2015, wildflower beginnings in our woods

March 9 mystery lily that seldom gets to bloom... maybe this year... alas on March 16 the leaves had been eaten off under the ground and were lying, wilting, on top. A few small ones remained intact. On March 19, all were eaten off but there were these clustered tiny things in the same area that may be more trying to come up? Or something else? March 24, all gone.

Cardamine sp.

Cardamine sp. (I've given up sorting out the Cardamines)

oxalis not yet in bloom

Cow parsnip young leaves

wood violets

bleeding heart leaves

Bigleaf Maple seedlings are everywhere

Columbia Lily just appearing on March 9. This is the one that takes forever to reach blooming height, when it doesn't get eaten by slugs.

On March 19, it was higher and several more in the neighborhood were poking up.

Sessile Trillium or Mottled Trillium, Trillium chloropetalum, not yet blooming

trillium "grove"

These mottled trillium are everywhere

another trillium "grove"

On March 19, the first (and one of few) Western Trillium was open.

Cardamine sp.

On March 16, the first Skunk Cabbage in full bloom...

Also on March 16, more Cardamine...

Finally, on March 19, I found a 5 petalled flower, some sort of Miner's Lettuce, I presume. Claytonia or Montia. It had lots of basal long petioled leaves creating a whorl of leaves far from the very long stemmed flowers. Update: thanks to Howard Bruner for the identification: This is Montia sibirica, Candy Flower. I think he has told me this in the past.