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| Friends among big trees and many species of flowers at Spurgeon Woodland |
Our intrepid group spied twenty-three species of wildflowers in bloom at
Spurgeon Woodland Reserve - ACRES Land Trust - our record so far this year. The wildflower display will be at its peak during the next 7-10 days. Spurgeon is about 4 miles south of the Topeka, IN stoplight on Noble CR 600 W, a 30 minute drive from Goshen, more than worthwhile even with gas at $4.18 per gallon.
Spurgeon is one of the least disrupted woods around. It was never heavily grazed or logged. The forest floor is almost entirely green. One ubiquitous plant at Spurgeon is Ramps or Wild Leek; the leaves will die back in June and late July its onion-like flower will shoot up.
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| Yellow Trout Lily, Erythronium americanum and White Trout Lily, E. albidum | |
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| Toad Trillium, Trillium sessile |
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| Large-flowered Trillium, Trillium grandiflorum | |
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| Drooping Trillium, T. felxipes - The flower hands down below the leaves |
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| Dutchman's Breeches, Dicentra cucullaria |
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| Squirrel Corn, Dicentra canadensis | |
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| Large-flowered Bellwort |
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| Wild Geranium, Geranium maculatum |
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| Wild Blue Phlox, Phlox divaricata |
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| Yellow Violet, Viola pubescens |
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| Long-spurred Violet, Viola rostrata |
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| Bishop's Cap, Mitella diphylla - Flower is only 1/8 in long |
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| Wood Poppy, Stylophorum diphyllum - Flower is c. 1 1/2 inches wide |
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| Blue Cohosh, Caulophyllum thalictroides This green flower is easy to miss |
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| Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Arisaema triphyllum |
Other native wildflowers that we found, but are not pictured above are:
Common Blue Violet,
Viola sororia
Canada Violet,
Viola canadensis (White petals, but faintly violet backs)
Cut-leaved toothwort,
Cardamine concatenata
Cleavers,
Galium aparine
Small-flowered Crowfoot,
Ranunculus abortivus
Early Meadowrue,
Thalictrum dioicum
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