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Spring Wildflowers on Mountaintops

Spring Wildflowers on Mountaintops

Bluets: Small Spring blooming wildflowers that carpet the high altitude roadsides in late Spring a lovely blue.  

Dutchmen's Breeches: Looks like miniature white pantaloons, somewhat inflated suspended from a slender flowering stalk.  

Great Chickweed: The five petals that make up the blossom of great chickweed are so deeply notched that it appears that there are 10 petals instead of five.  

Spring Beauty: This tiny flower has veins of dark pink which enhance the beauty of this simple flower.  

Wild Strawberry: The popular red fruits of this flower are considered superior in taste to the cultivated strawberry, and these are found throughout North America on hillsides and roadsides.

  • We are so happy to see Spring arrive in the Blue Ridge Mountains. We usually get the Spring weather about one month after the lower elevations, so we can look longingly over the mountainside and watch the trees become green up the hillsides. Even before green leaves appear on trees, there are pretty little wildflowers blooming in the surrounding woods. The wildflowers are pictured in the order they are described. It is a fun project with young children to have a wildflower hunt--almost as good as an Easter egg hunt, and much healthier!

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