Next stop was the Arc’s Chalet Nivale Preserve. “Nivale” refers to the snow trillium (Trillium nivale), which occurs there in profusion. Snow trillium is one of our first wildflowers to bloom, and it ...

Vernal Pools So Much Depends on Them We’ve all said or done things that we later regret. Since I harbor more than my share of remorse, I will begin by sharing something I am not proud of. Something I ...

The five are: skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetida), snow trillium (Trillium nobilis), hepatica (Hepatica nobilis), bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), and false rue anemone (Enemion bileratum).

Snow trillium started flowering at the end of March. Also, spring ephemerals are coming up in abundance, chiefly hepatica and false rue anemone. “Those are fun ones that will be up first ...

Next stop was the Arc’s Chalet Nivale Preserve. “Nivale” refers to the snow trillium (Trillium nivale), which occurs there in profusion. Snow trillium is one of our first wildflowers to ...