The Olmsted Community Alliance will be holding a "Walks & Talks" event in Riverside Park on May 31! See the accompanying flyer for more information! #buffalony #olmstedparks #riversideparkbuffalo

A bright yellow skunk cabbage flower spadix pushes out of its yellow spathe. It is growing out of a cluster of large, intensely green, oval leaves which will soon be the largest leaves in the area. This plant was growing on the side of a trail in muddy soil, surrounded by ferns and plant duff.

I finally spotted the swamp lanterns, aka skunk cabbage. growing along the trails and stream banks. There were a lot of them! A celebratory spring photo of Lysichiton americanus in Seattle
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A backlit pale pink five petaled flower hangs at the top of an almost leafless branch in the dappled light of the woods' understory . Its green sepals curve outwards a bit. Inside you can see its anthers still bent over the nascent berry.

We found one pale pink salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis) bush in bloom, promising insipid fruit in fall. Although the birds love them. No accounting for taste.
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Arctic sweet coltsfoot or butterburr is blooming amid its big palmate leaves in Cowen Park. The flowers are collected in an umbel of composite blooms. Each composite is made of pink to white tubular flowers tightly packed together, a bit like dandelions. These plants like swampy soil, which I once discovered my to my chagrin. The dog was pretty well muddled up too.

Here they are again! Arctic sweet coltsfoot (Petasites frigidus) on a warm sunny PNW day. I decided the dog and I should check out the muddy trails to see if anything was finally blooming, and anything was!
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