A walk around the lawn and woods today didn’t reveal any wildflowers, which is good if a foot of snow is coming Friday, but there was some green moss with sporophytes sprouted making it look like spring had arrived.
Moss Sporophytes
Picture of the Day for March 30, 2016
The spring flowers have been elusive this spring as my early wildflowers still have not poked up, but then they probably heard the forecast with more possible snow and below freezing temperatures. So far only sprouting has been moss sporophytes.
Moss Reaching Up
Picture of the Day for April 3, 2015
I still haven’t spotted any wildflowers but when it is below freezing this morning again, the flowers are wise not to poke their heads up yet. The only green and growing plant that I have spotted so far is moss. The tall, stalk-like sporophytes were waving in the strong winds above the low, leaf-like gametophytes of the moss. But moss might end up in a chickadee nest as moss is a favorite material for the nest foundation and I did see a chickadee going into a birdhouse this spring already.
Moss Sporophytes
