Wildflowers #1
by Lila Fisher-Wenzel
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Wildflowers #1
Artist
Lila Fisher-Wenzel
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Photograph - Photograph
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If you want to see spring beauty in bloom, get to the woods before the trees leaf out. Spring beauty grows from a starchy rhizome, where it stores all the energy it made the previous season to fuel its early spring growth.
The pink veins and yellow circle on the flower petals act as nectar guides for pollinators. Because those pollinators are generally out and about when the sun is shining, spring beauty only opens on sunny days. Some old wives-tales used this behavior as a barometer to predict oncoming storms.
Wildlife also relish Spring Beauty. Deer and wild hogs dig the starchy tuber for lunch. Some people say that the raw root tastes like a radish, but when it’s baked it tastes like a cross between a baked potato and roasted chestnuts.
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April 17th, 2013
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