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Here is the latest update on what's blooming, and it just keeps getting better over the next few weeks!

Hi all,
Another update - this one should be entitled "Time for Trillium".

The large-flowered trillium is blooming in great abundance (literally thousands of plants) on the Roaring Run trail in Apollo. If you can get there this weekend, I heartily recommend it. If you can't, there's a picture in the link below.

Hi all,
Many more spring wildflowers are popping up with the warm weather and rain we have had. Here's a link to pictures and descriptions - so put on your hiking boots!

http://www.personal.psu.edu/dys100/whatsblooming/midApril06.htm

Hi all,
As promised, here is the latest update on what's blooming, and it just keeps getting better over the next few weeks!

Currently, you can see flowers of:
Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica )
Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
Spicebush (Lindera benaoin) (just like Forsythia, the yellow flowers appear before the leaves on this bush)
Down by the stream you will also see the big (smelly) leaves of Skunk Cabbage (Symlocarpus foetidus) emerging.

Hello nature lovers,

Get ready - 69 degrees tomorrow, maybe 70 on Friday - we'll soon have lots to see and smell in the woods!

My walk this week revealed the tips of emerging skunk cabbage, the gleaming new bridge across the stream

Hi hikers,

There's lots more to look at than one week ago! Here are pictures and woodsy-lore about the plants that are currently (or about to be) in bloom:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/dys100/whatsblooming/midApril.htm

Remember, there are laminated copies of this week's selections in Tracie's lab (007 Science) for you to borrow when you head out to the woods.

See you on the trail,
Deborah

Hello nature lovers,

What's blooming on our nature trail right now? Nothing! But for those of us who keep track of this sort of thing, the next 4 weeks promise to be very exciting! I predict spring beauty and cut-leafed toothwort (also called pepperroot) any day now....

Hello Faculty and Staff,

If you find time (and the weather improves) later this week, take a walk on the Nature Trail! To entice you, here's a list of likely sights and links to images (from a great Smithsonian website) so you will know what to look for.

Pepperroot - very common - also called cut-leaved Toothwort - look at the leaves and you'll appreciate the name.

Hello insect lovers, I have been fielding so many cicada questions recently that I feel compelled to share some solid factual information with you all. If you are curious (or horrified), you will be enlightened by the links below:

Our Own Virtual Nature Trail Cicada page

 University of Michigan Periodical Cicada Page

Distribution Map of Brood VIII (the brood in this area - this map is cool) Enjoy - and remember, more than 80% of the identified animal species in the world are insects! Deborah