Spring Wildflowers (please see "How to find us")

We will stroll along the red trail that crosses a bridge over the pond at Ann Lee Pond Nature and Historic Preserve to experience up close the beauty and fragrance of some spring wildflowers.

We may encounter any of these native blooming beauties:

• Black Chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa)
• Early Azalea (Rhododendron prinophyllum)
• Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)
• Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
• Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum)
• Painted Trillium (Trillium undulatum)
• Pink Lady’s-slipper (Cypripedium acaule)
• Starflower (Lysimachia borealis)
• Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum)
• Yellow Clintonia (Clintonia borealis)

Learn more about the following native wildflowers, each of which has appeared on my blog, Curious By Nature, as part of my weekly series entitled "What Wildflower Begins Blooming This Week?"

• Early Azalea
• Jack-in-the-Pulpit
• Mayapple
• Painted Trillium
• Yellow Clintonia

Weather cancellation: This event will be cancelled if any of the following is occurring or is forecast for this destination at that time:

• thunderstorms (or any other severe weather),
• moderate or heavy rainfall (i.e., more than drizzle/mist or intermittent showers), or
• gusty or sustained winds (i.e., treetops are noticeably swaying back and forth).