Hairy Bittercress is one of our first spring flowers, often popping up in late winter. A little later in the spring, when daffodils are in bloom, it has developed taller stalks and is starting to grow its linear seedpods.
This lush patch was growing in Bird Park, Mount Lebanon.
For a fuller description, see the page on Cardamine hirsuta at the Flora Pittsburghensis reference site.
Blooming in Bird Park, Mount Lebanon. For a full description, see Cardamine concatenata in the Flora Pittsburghensis reference site.
Just beginning to bloom in Bird Park, Mount Lebanon. For a complete description, see the article on Dicentra cucullaria on the Flora Pittsburghensis reference site.
One of the first spring wildflowers, Purple Archangel or Purple Dead-Nettle can take advantage of a warm period in the middle of the winter to bloom for a few days. It is a very attractive flower on a small scale; as weeds go, this one is hard to object to very much.
See the full description on the Lamium purpureum page at the reference site.
Groundhog or no groundhog, we are having an early spring. Hairy Bittercress is one of the first wildflowers to bloom, and it is all over the place now. Here we see the basal rosette of leaves that is prominent early in the season; later the flowering stems will be longer and leafier.
For more pictures and a full description, see the Cardamine hirsuta page in our reference site.
