Spring Highlights

• Pale green emerging leaves (look for extravagantly unfurling hickory leaves)
• White blooms of  common serviceberry and flowering dogwood trees
• Pink to greenish-white blooms of hillside blueberry shrubs
• Purple blooms of heartleaf skullcap
• Yellow flowers of dwarf cinquefoil
• Visiting pollinators

Summer Highlights

• Full green summer leaves
• Pale pinkish blooms of longleaf summer bluet
• White to purple blooms of hoary mountainmint
• White blooms of striped prince’s-pine
• Visiting pollinators
• Ripening blueberries
• Red to purple berries of common serviceberry

Autumn Highlights

• Changing leaf colors of hickories, oaks and flowering dogwood
• Yellow blooms of elmleaf goldenrod
• White blooms of white wood-aster
• White to pink blooms of wavyleaf aster

Winter Highlights

• Acorns—look for one-inch long acorns of chestnut oak, and smaller acorns of northern red oak, black oak, and white oak
• Interesting shapes and textures of twigs, bark, and buds: vertically striped bark of northern red oak, deeply furrowed bark of chestnut oak
• Green bare twigs of hillside blueberry