Bleeding Heart Uncurls to Greet Spring
Bleeding Heart Uncurls to Greet Spring
March 19, 2012 at 11:46 pm (native plants, wildflowers)
Tags: bleeding heart, spring ephemerals
More prairie trout lily photos
March 23, 2010 at 2:40 am (wildflowers)
Tags: spring ephemerals
More Prairie Trout Lily photos from the woods.
These delightful harbingers of spring bloom earlier than the White Trout Lily, E. albidum and the Yellow Dog-tooth Violet, E. americanum. Native American women used the leaves for preventing pregnancy and they also were thought to have antibacterial properties.
