OK, the title of this post is somewhat misleading. But ‘Wisconsin wildflowers’ alliterates better than ‘Wisconsin Plantae’…
On our recent trip to the general Great Lakes region- I’ve been trying to think of what to call it: ‘Upper Midwest’ doesn’t fit, since it was partly in Canada, and we did actually visit two Great Lakes- we spent a day or so in western Wisconsin. We got there just at the tail end of the spring wildflower season, but unfortunately the mosquito season was well-underway. At any rate, here are some photos we took along the way.
Great white trilliums. Their petals turn pink before they wilt away:
Another trillium, with some wood violets:
A stand of interrupted fern- the brown patches in the middle of the fronds are actually fertile segments carrying spore cases:
Common dandelions added a splash of yellow to the scenery:
Finally, an interesting contrast between some field pussytoes and new eastern white pine cones:
