Here’s a shot from the foggy outing to the parkway a few weeks back. Sometimes, water drops and wetness are a photographic bonus, adding highlights missing when photographic conditions are “perfect”.
Sometimes worse is better.
This plant with a similar name should be distinguished from Lily of the Valley. Both species are lilies, I’m guessing the “wild” variety is native and the other, a European import long ago. I’ll have to check that out.
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1 Martha Baskin // Jun 16, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Fred,
I was in Concord, MA about a week ago and came up on the tiny little plants that you have pictured above (I think!) in trying to find out what they were, I searched through my books and in Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains, came up with what I think is a match (plate 34 maianthemum canadense.
I did a search for maianthemum canadense and am pretty satisfied that that is what it is. Is it also known as wild lily-of-the-valley??? I also took another picture that day of a wild lily of the valley which was growing nearby.
2 fred // Jun 16, 2008 at 3:12 pm
That’s it, know you’ll know it next time you see it, or be glad it blooms in the mountains unseen. — FF
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