Seasonal Highlights
Spring Highlights
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- Spring wildflowers! White blooms of squirrel-corn, white fawnlily, harbinger-of-spring, ramp, and cutleaf toothwort, and the white or pink blooms of Virginia springbeauty
- Cream-colored, bell-like blooms of American bladdernut shrub
Summer Highlights
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- Green and fairly lush
- Ferns (marginal woodfern)
- Green bladder-like papery seed capsules on American bladdernut (hard stony seeds inside)
- Yellow blooms of zigzag goldenrod and pale jewelweed
- White blooms of white wood-aster
Autumn Highlights
- Leaves changing colors—yellow leaves of bitternut hickory, yellow to orange leaves of black maple
- Squirrels and other animals eating bitternut hickory nuts, which are too bitter for humans
- American bladdernut seed capsules turning brown
Winter Highlights
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- Bladdernuts—brown and papery seed capsules—still hanging on American bladdernut trees