woods flowers

[redpowerd]

not much of a flower guy, but seen this interesting plant cuttin out a old road yesterday and snapped a photo. looks like a flower may be emerging from that whorl. anyone ID it? i have a few more after this one.
thanks

[sprucebunny]

I'd have to guess it's a Jack-in-the-pulpit. A protected species around here.

Thanks for the picture

[redpowerd]

http://2bnthewild.com/plants/H46.htm

this page has a drawin of one, the leaves branch from the ground, and has quite a bit of purple. they may be related. the fruit looks different too. smooth with no streaks.

heres another. two leaves.

[SwampDonkey]

red,

Your second flower is a trout lilly. I believe your first picture, although a cousin of Jack-in-pulpit,is a dfferent species, known as Green Dragon. This species is not as showy as our northern ones (3-subspecies), with purple leaves and red fruit. The calcium oxalate crystals in the taproot will cause a burning sensation if eaten. The burning sensation is extinguished when boiling the taproot, actually a corm. Others of the genus are aquatic.

[redpowerd]

thanks SD, its nice to know these small plants i come across in the woods. i know trees a and anything growing in a feild, good to point out some names when asked

heres one more, all these flowers were growing within ten feet of each other, in a very old stand of maples.

[estiers]

Trillium??

[Jeff]

I'd say so. Trilium is in full swing around here right now.

[Roxie]

Nah, he was just barely pleased.   

[redpowerd]

come again?

would that be the same as snowdrop?

[beenthere]

repowered
The snowdrop is an amaryllis which is more lilly-like than the 3 petalled trillium.

[SwampDonkey]

Look like painted trilium, 3 sepals, 3 petals and 3 leaves. White flowers with pink or reddish veins in the flowers, reddest near the centre of the petal whorl. Might even be large flowered trilium, which is white flowered.

Our trilium are just emerging here, mostly the purple trilium.

[Tom]

I find myself looking underfoot at the smallest of flowers.  I think it is kinda neat that there is a whole world under there that we don't often notice.  Here is one of our pretty wildflowers.

[SwampDonkey]

Yup, there are a lot of tiny flowers we are always walking on with out even noticing. We have a tiny blue iris that looks like a blade of grass with a flower at the tip (pointed blue-eyed grass), then there is wild strawberries, ground ivy, blue bead lilly, asters, dog-toothed violet, red clover, twin flower, wild geranium, wood sorrel, hawkweed, bunchberry, winter green etc. When your in the woods, your walking on alot of these.

[sprucebunny]

I believe this is another trillium. Very dramatic color for a wild flower.

[SwampDonkey]

Yup, sprucebunny, we have two names for them ones. Stinking trilium or purple trilium.

Here's one big one, notice the shoe for size