Today is the Cranberry Blossom Day in Warrens and last weekend was the Cranberry Blossom Festival in Wisconsin Rapids so it gives you a hint that the cranberry vines are blooming in Wisconsin this time of the year.
Cranberry flowers are not capable of self fertilization so pollinators, like bees, are required to move pollen from one flower to another. Cranberry blossom do not offer the same nectar appeal that other crops offer so the bees might fly off and find other flowers to pollinate, such as area weeds or lily pads, but hopefully the bees will pollinate the blossoms in the shape of a crane head so I have my cranberry juice and other cranberry treats.
Cranberry Blossom
I wonder if these are the blossoms of those SWEET cranberries?