Bare trees sprouting green leaves, the sun warming and shining on the damp earth, and hundreds of flowers poking upward are ...

Half-hidden in the leaf duff, pink-veined spring beauties and lilac ... in Frenchtown. "Many, like trout lily and Virginia bluebells, flower and then melt away as if they never were there at ...

"This is a trout lily. It's got the yellow. You can see it, it's facing downward," said Anna Foster, director of programming at The Ridges Sanctuary. Foster says signs of spring are easy to find ...

like the Trout Lily, appears before the tall trees are filled with leaves. It is native to North America as well as Asia and Central America. The five-petaled flowers are white with pink tinges ...