EARLY WILDFLOWERS OF SOUTHWESTERN OHIO ©David B. Fankhauser, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Chemistry University of Cincinnati Clermont College, Batavia OH 45103
Pepper and Salt	This page has been accessed  times since 24 March 2003.	Bloodroot

I have grouped pictures of the same flower according to its common name in the general sequence which they tend to bloom.  Most of the jpegs are named with the scientific names of the flower.  Obviously, the page is still under construction...

BioLab class in the field:

Pepper and Salt (Harbinger of Spring):

Snow Drops (escaped garden flower):

Crocus (escaped garden flower):

Dandilion:

Spring Cress:
 
   

White Trout Lily:

Bloodroot:
 

Lesser Celandine (Fig Buttercup) (Ranunculus ficaria): An alien which is taking over many creek banks in SW Ohio.  (Often misidentified as Marsh Marigold)

Pennsylvania Bittercress (?):                                          Far right: Hairy Bittercress (Cardamine hirsuta), thanks to Kay Yatskievych ).

Common Chickweed:

Spring Beauty (Note the Garter Snake in the last image):
    

Cut Leafed Toothwort

Rue Anemone:

Ferns:

Ground Ivy  (Gill-over-the-Ground)

Purple Dead Nettle:

Kidney-leafed Buttercup:

Bird’s-Eye Speedwell (Veronica persica).  (ID courtesy of Kay Yatskievych.)

Sessile Trillium, including a 'mutant' with green petals (last image):

Coltsfoot:

Common Blue Violet:

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