A "better late than never" post from Spring 2019: flowers and breaking buds

Flower, Dogtooth violet (Erythronium americanum) on April 3, 2019. [Photo: Cathie Bird]

 

Flower bud, Dogtooth violet (Erythronium americanum) on March 27, 2019. [Photo: Cathie Bird]

 

Dogtooth Violet-3 on April 6, 2019. [Photo: Cathie Bird]

 

Breaking buds, Ohio Buckeye (Aesculus glabra) on March 19, 2019. [Photo: Cathie Bird]

 

Buckeye leaves on April 16, 2019. [Photo: Cathie Bird]

 

Emerging leaves of Maple Leaf Viburnam (Viburnam acerifolium) on April 1, 2019. [Photo: Cathie Bird]

 

Bud break on my cloned dogwood (Cornus florida-appalachianspring), April 1, 2019. [Photo: Cathie Bird]

 

Red Maple on March 26, 2019. [Photo: Cathie Bird]

 

Initial and first leaves of Echinacea purpurea on March 24, 2019. [Photo: Cathie Bird].

 

Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica) on March 27, 2019. [Photo: Cathie Bird]

 

Rue Anemone-2 (Thalictrum thalictroides) on March 27, 2019. [Photo: Cathie Bird]

 

Rue Anemone-1 (Thalictrum thalictroides) on April 1, 2019. [Photo: Cathie Bird]

 

Cutleaf toothwort (Cardemine concatenata)on March 26, 2019. [Photo: Cathie Bird]

 

Yellow trillium (Trillium luteum) on April 1, 2019. [Photo: Cathie Bird]

 

Initial growth of Trillim grandiflorum (on the left, next to an emerging rattlesnake plantain) on March 26, 2019. [Photo: Cathie Bird]

 

Emerging flower bud, Trillium grandiflorum, on April 1, 2019. [Photo: Cathie Bird]

 

Wild blue phlox (Phlox divaricata) on April 3, 2019. [Photo: Cathie Bird]

 

Halberdleaf Yellow Violet (Viola hastata) on March 24, 2019. [Photo: Cathie Bird]