Smooth Solomon’s Seal

Smooth Solomon’s Seal (Polygonatum biflorum), in bloom up here in the woods. It is an herbaceous perennial, native to eastern and central North America. 

Often found in rocky woods, happy in either dry or moist soil. Like the Yucca, it’s another plant in the asparagus (Asparagaceae) family.

Smooth Solomon Seal can very slowly form colonies in favorable conditions through its rhizomes. Bees, butterflies and Ruby-throated Hummingbirds enjoy its nectar. Its berries turn to blue-black in autumn. Robins, Bluebirds, Hermit Thrush and Wood Thrush, and Veery enjoy eating those blue-black berries.

I know where the colonies are and love to go past them in my roaming.

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Brenda Clements Jones

Brenda is a certified Virginia Master Naturalist, a Habitat Defender for Shenandoah National Park, and a devoted fan of Mother Nature. She lives in a cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Shenandoah National Park, and hikes up to the higher elevations of her mountain often to see what nature is up to. Her constant hiking companion is a camera that captures nature as it unfolds through the seasons. It’s her goal to share the natural world around her through her photographs.