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What's Blooming?

Some obviously blooming plants of Wisconsin in April.
LocationCommon NameScientific Name
Spring seepages, sedge meadows, marshes, swampy woods and thicketscowslip, marsh-marigold, yellow marsh-marigold Caltha palustris L.
 skunk-cabbage Symplocarpus foetidus (L.) Salisb. ex W.P.C.Barton



LocationCommon NameScientific Name
Woodlandsgarlic mustard (aggressive invasive weed) Alliaria petiolata
 sharp-lobed hepatica Anemone acutiloba
 nightcaps, wood anemone Anemone quinquefolia
 Canadian wild-ginger, wild-ginger Asarum canadense
 cut-leaved toothwort, five-parted toothwort Cardamine concatenata
 broad-leaved toothwort, crinkle-root Cardamine diphylla
 greater celandine (weed) Chelidonium majus
 spring-beauty, Virginia spring-beauty Claytonia virginiana
 squirrel-corn Dicentra canadensis
 Dutchman's-breeches Dicentra cucullaria
 false rue anemone Enemion biternatum
 small white fawn-lily, white dog-tooth violet, white trout-lily Erythronium albidum
 American trout-lily, yellow dog-tooth violet, yellow trout-lily Erythronium americanum
 false mermaid, false mermaid-weed Floerkia proserpinacoides
 thick-leaved wild strawberry, Virginia strawberry, wild strawberry Fragaria virginiana
 annual bedstraw, cleavers, goose-grass, sticky-willy Galium aparine
 rheumatism root, twinleaf Jeffersonia diphylla
 eastern bluebells, Virginia bluebells, Virginia cowslip Mertensia virginica,
 little-leaf buttercup, small-flowered buttercup Ranunculus abortivus
 bristly buttercup, hispid buttercup, rough buttercup Ranunculus hispidus
 Canadian black snakeroot, Canadian sanicle Sanguinaria canadensis
 early meadow-rue, quicksilver-weed Thalictrum dioicum
 rue-anemone, wind-flower Thalictrum thalictroides
 door-yard violet, common blue violet, hairy wood violet (Wisconsin state flower) Viola sororia



LocationCommon NameScientific Name
Dry PrairiesAmerican pasqueflower, prairie-smoke Anemone patens L. var. multifida Pritz.
 cat's-foot, field pussy-toes Antennaria neglecta Greene
 lyrate rock-cress, sand cress Arabis lyrata L.
 cream wild indigo, long-bracted wild indigo, plains wild indigo Baptisia bracteata Muhl. ex Elliott var. glabrescens (Larisey) Isely
 old-man's-whiskers, prairie-smoke Geum triflorum Pursh
 hoary puccoon Lithospermum canescens (Michx.) Lehm.
 violet wood-sorrel Oxalis violacea L.
 early buttercup, thick-root buttercup Ranunculus fascicularis Muhl. ex J.M.Bigelow
 prairie buttercup, prairie crowfoot Ranunculus rhomboideus Goldie
 prairie willow, upland willow Salix humilis Marshall
 bird's-foot violet Viola pedata L.
 prairie violet Viola pedatifida G.Don

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