Tendrils

Category: Wood Poppy

  • Trout Lily

    Trout Lily

    If ever there was the perfect use of the word “diminutive” I think it would be for describing Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum). A lily that grows to be just six inches tall. A bit too big for a doll house but still mighty small for a lily. It’s flower which dips shyly has no petals…

  • Wood Poppy Revisited

    Wood Poppy Revisited

    I’ve written about Wood Poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum) before but I enjoy the native flower with its happy yellow so much I’d like to tell you more about it. The deeply lobed green-blue leaves of Wood Poppy are poking up from the surface of the soil here in the Blue Ridge now, as the month of…