Up-close photograph of a red trillium flower. Three crimson petals and three paler green sepals surround prominent central stamens and anthers. The large leaf-like bracts surround the flower.
Drooping yellow flowers of large-flowered bellwort grow in the woods.
Up-close photograph of the brownish maroon flower of Canadian wild ginger, growing flush with the leaf litter on the forest floor.
Photograph of a flowering stalk of early blue cohosh. Three somewhat burgundy-colored flowers grow from the central stalk.
Spring ephemerals today along the Erie Canal.
1. Red trillium.
2. Large-flowered bellwort.
3. Canadian wild ginger.
4. Early blue cohosh.