Coltsfoot is up and blooming, pushing its way through the leaf litter in Bird Park, Mount Lebanon.
For a description, see the Tussilago farfara reference page.
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Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara)
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Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)
Photographed February 25. Skunk Cabbage is blooming wherever there is muck, ready to attract early insects. If you enlarge the picture, you can find a spider waiting for customers on one of the leaves.
For more information, see our reference page on Symplocarpus foetidus.
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Chicory (Cichorium intybus), White Form
Chicory is almost always blue, but like many blue flowers it can sometimes appear in a pink or white form. This pure-white Chicory was growing in a cemetery in Etna.
For a fuller description, see the Cichorium intybus reference page.
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Chicory (Cichorium intybus)
Also known by the much more poetical name “Blue Sailors,” but we must admit we have never heard that name used in Pittsburgh. Chicory is everywhere along the roadside and in vacant lots; this plant was blooming by the side of Saw Mill Run Boulevard not far from the Liberty Tunnels.
For a fuller description, see the Cichorium intybus reference page.
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Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina)
These striking seed clusters follow greenish flowers that most of us ignore. These trees grew along Chartiers Creek in Heidelberg, where they were photographed July 6.
For a fuller description see the Rhus typhina reference page.
