The Spring Beauty blossoms are popping up in my woods and I mowed around some patches on the farm lawn. These flowers close up at night and on cloudy days, so they like the sunshine like I do.
Spring Beauty Blossoms
Picture of the Day for May 17, 2018
These small native wildflowers might have to be called Summer Beauty instead of Spring Beauty as they are enjoying summertime temperatures instead of normal cooler weather. The blossoms of the Spring Beauty open up on warm sunny days, like today, but close and nod down during cloudy weather or at night.
Pretty Pink Spring Beauties
Picture of the Day for February 6, 2017
The day was almost to the freezing mark but it was cloudy so didn’t seem as nice out. The layer of snow and the cold temperatures won’t let the spring wildflowers to pop up and add some color to the landscape for a while yet.
Waiting for Spring Beauties
Picture of the Day for December 27, 2016
Even though the days are gradually getting longer, it still will be four months before the ground will show signs of spring flowers like these Spring Beauties.
Waiting for the Beauties
Picture of the Day for April 15, 2016
While walking through the woods on my way to fix birdhouses, I spotted a tiny cluster of Spring Beauties which had opened up. Normally they show more pink coloring, but I think all the snow flurries washed the color right out.
The First Spring Beauties
Picture of the Day for April 17, 2015
The pink striped petals of the Spring Beauty wildflower are a welcome sign of the arrival of spring, even if there is a mention of snow in forecast. The flower is one of the most common native perennials in eastern North America which grows small roots that remind people of tiny potatoes, hence the nickname “Fairy Spuds” and can be eaten, although it would take a lot of them for a meal!
The Pink of the Spring Beauty
Picture of the Day for May 13, 2014
The cold and dark days of this spring have the wildflowers huddled up and they refuse to open their petals to the missing sun. Maybe tomorrow’s promised sunshine will allow them to finally open up and show their pretty colors.
Spring Refusing to Come for the Spring Beauties
Picture of the Day for May 18, 2013
The Spring Beauty may be a small wildflower but when several bloom in a cluster, they provide a dash of pink against the forest floor covered with brown oak leaves in the spring time.
Cluster of Spring Beauties
Picture of the Day for May 11, 2013
Yesterday I walked down my path in the woods to check if the Trilliums had opened up as I saw the bubs earlier in the week but the deer were faster than I was and they ate all three plants off to the ground level. So instead of three Trilliums, I had to take pictures of three Spring Beauty blossoms that the deer didn’t eat.
The Spring Beauty open up on warm sunny days, and close during cloudy weather or at night. They are more or less erect while open, but nod downward while closed. And today they would be nodding downward since it is snowing again!
Spring Beauties
Picture of the Day for March 12, 2013
While the Spring Beauty isn’t the first spring wildflower to appear in the spring, it does have ‘spring’ in its name so it is a sign of spring. Although one of its other names is ‘fairy spud’ which doesn’t sound so spring like to me.
Spring Beauty
