2012 Wildflowers of No. America - #

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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D110-2012 Hispid buttercup 01
Ranunculus hispidus Family Ranunculaceae
Distribution (as per Peterson Field Guide "Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York, south"), but growing in southeast Michigan
This specimen has the erect or upright hairy stems that help distinguish it from swamp buttercup (R. septentrionalis)

Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
April 20, 2012
(nex5n)

D110-2012 Hispid buttercup 04
Ranunculus hispidus Family Ranunculaceae
Distribution (as per Peterson Field Guide "Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York, south"), but growing in southeast Michigan

Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
April 20, 2012
(nex5n)

D110-2012 Nodding trillium 01 white form
Trillium cernuum
Plants of seemingly identical form, both as to leaf and flower shapes and sizes, bore both red and white flowers (not on the same plant!). They were all seen along the wetland path in the Main Valley.
Also seen in this shot are leaves from Solomon's Seal, Wild Ginger, and Wild Geranium.

Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
April 20, 2012
(nex5n)

D110-2012 Wild ginger 04
Asarum canadense Family Aristolochiaceae
Distribution woodlands of the eastern United States

Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor
April 20, 2012
(nex5n)

D110-2012 Wood anemone
Anemone quinquefolia Family Ranunculaceae
I decided on wood anemone as the ID, rather than rue-anemone, based on the leaf shape, the five petals, and the single blossom stalk. Only the leaves immediately beneath the blossom and in the foreground are the anemone leaves. The larger coarser ones belong to wild geranium.
The almost obligatory critter in this shot seems to be a spider, not the more common fly, gnat, bee, or wasp.

Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
April 20, 2012
(nex5n)

D110-2012 Nodding trillium 05 white form
Nodding (T. cernuum) or Drooping (T. flexipes) or some cultivar or hybrid. This doesn't have the pink or red anthers that characterize wild nodding trillium, but it does have the recurved petals that distinguish nodding from drooping trillium.
Plants of seemingly identical form, both as to leaf and flower shapes and sizes, bore both red and white flowers (not on the same plant!). They were all seen along the wetland path in the Main Valley

Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
April 20, 2012
(nex5n)

D110-2012 Rue-anemone
Anemonella thalictroides Family Ranunculaceae
This shot gives you everything from unopened buds to blooms that are already setting seeds.
The large deeply indented leaf in the lower left is from a wild geranium, and the upright tapered leaf (upper left) is possibly from a trout lily.

Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
April 20, 2012
(nex5n)

D110-2012 25 Trillium grandiflorum 'Caught in the Act'
Note the palest of pink blush on the petals.

Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
April 20, 2012
(nex5n)

D110-2012 Buttercup 01
Genus Ranunculus Species unknown
The leaves of this species don't match any of the buttercups in the Peterson Guide. More research is required.
I desaturated the vivid yellow in the blossoms in order to preserve a little more of the details. These, like all buttercups, were almost blindingly bright shiny yellow "in the flesh".

Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
April 20, 2012
(nex5n)

D110-2012 Hispid buttercup 01
Ranunculus hispidus Family Ranunculaceae
Distribution (as per Peterson Field Guide "Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York, south"), but growing in southeast Michigan
This specimen has the erect or upright hairy stems that help distinguish it from swamp buttercup (R. septentrionalis)

Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
April 20, 2012
(nex5n)