Spring Woodland Flowers 2013

An afternoon walk in the woods revealed several early May wildflowers.  Of course, as a preacher, I love to see the Jack-in-the-Pulpit pop through the leaf litter.

 

Prairie Trillium (which is a woodland and not a prairie plant) suggests the Holy Trinity. 

 

 

The delicate Rue Anemone is also called "windflower" because it moves with the gentlest breeze.

 

 

Cutleaf Toothwort is lovely and attracts many kinds of bees. Passenger pigeons (extinct since 1914) used to eat the tubers.

 

 

 

Churchill Woods F.P. is one of my favorite places in DuPage county.