Flowers
at
Scott Starling Nature Sanctuary
April 6, 2011
The Northwest Indy Hikers/Bikers made their first foray of 2011 into the Starling Nature Sanctuary in Eagle Creek Park, IN; on April 6th. Our purpose was hiking, trash clean up, and spring flowers. Linda Gibson did the heavy lifting of identifying most of the flowers; thanks (and she thanks MHM). Our trash queen, Linda G, and her assistant did the hard work of trash clean up. I took the close up flower shots and Jeanette Huber added some general scenes including a nice shot of Fishback Creek at sunset which I am using for background here on these web pages. Her shots can be identified by the JMH in the file name. Many of the flowers were just beginning to come out. Click on the images for larger versions. Pictures may be used for non-commercial use; credit appreciated.
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Blood Root:
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Cut-leaved Toothwort:
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Dutchman's Breeches:
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(Hey, it's only April; no May flowers yet!)
May Apple:
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Purple Cress:
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I still can't tell the difference. Supposedly you can tell from the leaves,
duh huh??Rue Anemone (or not = False Rue Anemone):
Note
that Rue Anemone has small leaves immediately below (behind) the flower (see pic
in II). Thus I think we have False R.A. here.
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Scilla:
(Oops,
is the last one really Scilla?)
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Spring Beauty:
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(The only one with a blossom this early.)
Trillium:
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(My favorite.)Trout Lilly:
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Virginia Bluebells:
JMH
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