May Day 2015 Sweden, Maine
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This year the snow stayed around and around. It is gone now and everything is springing out.
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Speckled alder (although I see an animal).
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Beaked hazelnut
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Pink female flowers and male catkins. Short male catkins form in the fall. In the spring, they bloom and expand to 4-6 cm in length.
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Magnifications of the spring catkin (10x - 25x)
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![](catkin_4_05-01-15.jpg) My task now is to learn these various parts of the catkin.
Checkered rattlesnake plantain (Goodyera tessalata). I often see the more common rattlesnake plantain (Goodyera pubescens), which has much darker green leaves with very white veins.
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This red trillium has taken advantage of being free of snow that covered it just a short time ago.
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The skunk cabbage is so beautiful, it would like me to refer to it as a False Hellebore.
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This may be a red-belted polypore
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The
polypore was at the base of a white pine. It was so close to the bottom
that I couldn't get anything but the camera underneath to take a look.
I was surprised to find this when I downloaded my images.
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Beautiful moss. On my list of a zillion things to learn to identify.
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The magic rock.
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How organic.
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This
sarsaparilla deserves some attention. This is the 3rd year that
it has grown in about 1" of forest debris in the crevice of a rock. As shown in this shoot, it is a vigorous grower.
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