Spring Ephemeral Checklist

Common names by estimated month of bloom

February

• Skunk Cabbage

April

• Blue Cohost
• Early Saxifrage
• False Hellebore
• Red Trillium
• White Trillium
• Yellow Violet
• Purple Violet
• Wild Ginger
• Hepatica
• Coltsfoot
• Trout Lily
• Cut Leaved Toothwort

May

• Dutchman’s Breeches
• Bloodroot
• Spring Beauty
• Jack in the Pulpit
• Miterwort
• False Solomon’s Seal
• Golden Alexanders
• Common Fleabane
• Rue Anemone
• Fringed Polygala
• Solomon’s Seal
• Wild Columbine
• Wild Geranium
• Early Meadow Rue
• May Apple
• Crowfoot
• American Bladdernut
• Herb Robert