Seasonal Highlights
Spring Highlights
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- Carpets of Virginia bluebells
- White flowers, butterfly-shaped leaves of twinleaf
- Yellowish-green flowers and gray-green foliage of blue cohosh
- White and oddly shaped flowers of Dutchman’s breeches and squirrel-corn
- Small bright yellow flowers on northern spicebush
- Maroon flowers of pawpaw
- Many other spring wildflowers
- Sulphur-yellow, slender leaf buds at the tips of bitternut hickory twigs
Summer Highlights
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- Full green of summer leaves
- Deep shade of diverse species of tall, deciduous trees
- Lush growth on the forest floor
- Lime green fruit of mayapple
Autumn Highlights
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- Blue berries of blue cohosh
- Red berries of northern spicebush
- Light green pawpaw fruits, which may have brown spots as they ripen, late summer through October
- Changing leaf colors: yellow to deep purple leaves of white ash, yellow leaves of American basswood, orange-red leaves of sugar maple, bright yellow leaves of black maple, golden bronze of hickories
Winter Highlights
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- Interesting shapes and textures of tree trunks and bark: multiple trunks of American basswood; warty bark of hackberry; and the neatly and tightly woven fishnet look of bitternut hickory bark.