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I have decided to keep a separate gallery of wildflowers for each current year. During that year the gallery will be sorted in reverse order of date taken so that the most recent pictures appear at the beginning of this gallery. At the end of each year I'll collect the pictures into the main wildflower gallery, which is sorted in ascending order of date taken. See that gallery here: http://arctangent.smugmug.com/Nature/Vegetation/Wildflowers-Past-Years/5424475_QmrpZJ. I'll also re-sort the year's gallery in ascending order.

Included here are any flowers seen growing in wild or natural environments, as well as species known to occur in the wild but seen planted in various garden settings. Flowers might be native to North America, or alien imports, mainly from Europe.
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D149-2012 European wild ginger, Asarum europaeum
Family Aristolochiaceae     Native to Europe; widely cultivated for ornamental value as a ground cover outside its native range.

Hosta Hillside, Hidden Lake Gardens, Michigan
May 29, 2012
(nex5n)
Note:  smugmug has, once again, failed to sort an image properly.  This one belongs next to its companion, here:  http://smu.gs/MyjLrR
D079-2012  Unidentified wildflower.
There were lots of low flowering plants in bloom in the grass.  Violets were the most prevalent.  This is some kind of buttercup.  No dandelions yet, but tomorrow is another day!

Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
March 21, 2012
D081-2012 Bloodroot 02
Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
Family Papaveraceae
Distribution  Eastern North America

One of the first woodland flowers to bloom.

Hidden Lake Gardens, Michigan
March 22, 2012
D081-2012 Bloodroot 04
Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
Family Papaveraceae
Distribution  Eastern North America

One of the first woodland flowers to bloom.

Hidden Lake Gardens, Michigan
March 22, 2012
D081-2012 Bloodroot 09
Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
Family Papaveraceae
Distribution  Eastern North America

One of the first woodland flowers to bloom.

Hidden Lake Gardens, Michigan
March 22, 2012
D081-2012 Spring Beauty 02
That most irrepressible of spring woodland flowers, Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica, family Portulacaceae).

Where I live, it naturalizes readily to shady lawns and seems impervious to being walked on and mowed, coming back just as strongly the following year.  The blossoms survive heat and cold, and stay on for many days.  The petals sparkle in the sun and they remind me of peppermint candy.

Hidden Lake Gardens, Michigan
March 22, 2012
(Canon G12)
D082-2012 Spring Beauty 03
Wildflowers in the grass.

Spring Beauty, Claytonia virginica
Family Portulacaceae (purslane)

You have to love a flower that has pink pollen!  BTW, can you spot the ant in this picture?  And the maple sprouts?

 Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
March 23, 2012
D082-2012 Ranunculus 05
Some species of buttercup, possibly Early Buttercup (Ranunculus fascicularis)
Family  Ranunculaceae

Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
March 23, 2012
D086-2012 Mertensia 04
Mertensia buds not yet opened.
Virginia Bluebell (Mertensia virginica; also Virginia Cowslip, Lungwort Oysterleaf, Roanoke Bells)
Family 	Boraginaceae (the borage family, which includes comfrey)

Growing at the northeast corner of the cemetery, at the boundary fence with Nichols Arboretum.

Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
March 27, 2012
(I applied a couple of layers of filters to this one; watercolor and sumi-e, both at moderate opacity.)
D149-2012 European wild ginger, Asarum europaeum
Family Aristolochiaceae Native to Europe; widely cultivated for ornamental value as a ground cover outside its native range.

Hosta Hillside, Hidden Lake Gardens, Michigan
May 29, 2012
(nex5n)
Note: smugmug has, once again, failed to sort an image properly. This one belongs next to its companion, here: http://smu.gs/MyjLrR
D149-2012 European wild ginger, Asarum europaeum
Family Aristolochiaceae     Native to Europe; widely cultivated for ornamental value as a ground cover outside its native range.

Hosta Hillside, Hidden Lake Gardens, Michigan
May 29, 2012
(nex5n)
Note:  smugmug has, once again, failed to sort an image properly.  This one belongs next to its companion, here:  http://smu.gs/MyjLrR
D149-2012 European wild ginger, Asarum europaeum
Family Aristolochiaceae Native to Europe; widely cultivated for ornamental value as a ground cover outside its native range.

Hosta Hillside, Hidden Lake Gardens, Michigan
May 29, 2012
(nex5n)
Note: smugmug has, once again, failed to sort an image properly. This one belongs next to its companion, here: http://smu.gs/MyjLrR
See photo in original gallery.
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Keywords: spring leaf summer leaves may foliage ginger shiny cultivated wild ginger 2012 hidden lake gardens hosta hillside european ginger
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