Here in the Arkansas Ozarks, the time for spring wildflowers is here. Some of the ephemerals are still lingering, but the bloodroot is well and gone. Now the later, more durable flowering is underway.
Here’s some I saw today while out and about checking fences and floodwaters.
Phlox
We have three different colors of phlox. The darker purple ones bloom first, and then the white and pink.
Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum)
These aren’t very common but I love seeing them. They grow in shady edges where the soil is rich with leaf humus. While this plant is also a native medicinal, it’s not abundant enough to add to my list of plants to use.
Claytonia virginica
These are dainty flowers with grass-like leaves. Easy to miss if you’re not careful.
Jacob’s Ladder (Polemonium reptans)
I see these more abundantly in some areas, but there’s only one that lives along our driveway. This flower has survived years of frequent flooding along the banks of our creek. I’m surprised it hadn’t washed away.
It is one of our medicinal wild herbs, but I’ve never used it.
That’s it for today!
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I’m a nature-lover, real estate agent & artist. Sometimes, I also write things. I began using local pigments to paint scenes from nature in the Ozarks in 2018.
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