Ephemeral spring?

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With climate change, it is a hard to predict spring. We know we will have one but will it be early or truncated? Will the woodland wildflowers have a proper amount of time to bloom, be pollinated and set seeds?

At any rate, the ephemerals are ephemeral. They have to emerge and bloom before the leaves come back to the trees. It is their moment in the sun. I write about them in my third book Ephemeral by Natural…well, that was a no-brainer.

Naturalist Lynne Davis sent me a photo of hepatica (Hepatica nobilis) blooming at William Hastie Natural Area and I found cutleaved toothwort (Cardamine concatenata)  in bloom on the Homesite at Ijams Nature Center. So we have to think that spring has begun.

Thanks, Lynne. 

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