June 2, 2025

At the end of summer this is what you’ll see along the trails up here. The berries of Solomon’s Plume (Maianthemum racemosum).

Go out right now though and you’ll see panicles (or clusters) of tiny flowers, maybe 5 to 250 of the flowers, making up a length of 4 to 6 inches.

Either singly or all standing proudly in a row. White or creamy colored just waiting to become the crimson berries of late summer and autumn to feed many birds and small mammals. Eating the berries and distributing the seeds here and there.

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