First Flowers of May

My wife Jensa and I spent three hours today exploring the Moss Glen nature trail. The loop is only supposed to take an hour but we spent a lot of time stopping to take photographs. We had
a good day spotting several species in the process of flowering.

The first thing we came across were a few trout lilies. We quickly realized that there were thousands stretching out in every direction.

Strangely enough the anthers on the stamen of the flowers were yellow on one side of the trail and purple on the opposite side.

We came across a few more primitive plants, firstly the Horse tail

Then later a club moss that appears to have spore cones

Jensa spotted a small patch of Northern White Violet

and I caught a Red trillium in bloom hiding behind a tree. We saw twelve in total, but only two were fully blooming.

Another happy find was a single Spring Beauty plant in flower

All in all it was a very nice trail, well worth a visit.