WildeHerb is a collection of wild herb and wildflower sightings.
Yesterday we saw more than a dozen spring flowers in bloom at Little Buffalo State Park. It’s a wonderful time to take the short walk on the Mill Race Trail at the Day Use Area. The Day Use Area at Little Buffalo has picnic tables, a playground, bathrooms, and access to a few trails. On … Read more
The day before Spring announced itself on our calendars I spied the first flower of the season. After the winter we just had — it was refreshing to see new life! The 3-inch snowfall that came on the first day of Spring was melted by the next day, except for a few snow banks and … Read more
Yellow violets are fairly common around the same areas where you’ll see wild ginger, skunk cabbage and other creek-side flowers. Like other violets yellow violet flowers have five petals and a spur, so the blossoms are easily recognized as a kind of violet. As an aid to identification violets can be separated into two groups: … Read more
Skunk cabbage leaves came out of the ground preformed like rolled up cigars at least a month ago and they seem to be getting bigger by the day. Heck, they are so big now you can easily see them from the road as you’re driving. Taking walks by the creek the last two weeks we … Read more
Every year around this time we like to go for woods walks looking for the earliest Spring flowers. The Spring Ephemeral flowers are a bunch of beautiful early Spring flowers that one can see in the Eastern forests of the United States. Early in the Spring season means before the trees leaf out and not … Read more
Here we are anticipating the arrival of Spring-like weather. Late winter snows have covered the ground, but the sun that is stronger now is having an easier time melting the cold, white stuff. Snow has pulled away from the buildings yet there are still a couple of inches with a hard crust laying all along … Read more
One of the Spring woodland flowers that is quite common is the yellow-flowering Dogtooth Violet, Erythronium americanum. It’s also called the Trout Lily because it blooms in early Spring when the trout are spawning. The dogtooth violet has six long, narrow petals that are bright yellow on the inside with streaks of red to brown … Read more
Each year I don’t get to walk all the trails that I’d like to for one reason or another and sometimes I’m too early or too late to see certain plants blooming. Finding perennial plants that bloom only in the Spring can be tough. Relying on memories of past walks to help locate some flowers … Read more