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Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. As the days get longer and the sun warms the forest floor, hepatica flowers start emerging. These charming early bloomers captivated the writer and ...

During this time of April, the woods are bright and open. Sunlight penetrates to the forest floor, and the dead leaves deposited here last fall are now unshielded. In winter, this region was under a ...

Hepatica isn't the earliest flower to appear each year by any means. Bitter cress, dandelion, henbit, purple dead nettle and other wayside plants can be found in open moist places by late January or ...

Hepatica doesn’t display the earliest flowers that bloom each year. Those of bitter cress, henbit, purple dead nettle, bird’s-eye speedwell, and others appear in open moist sunny spots by late January ...

The petal-like sepals can be blue, purple, pink, or white. More than one person has asked about the picture on the front of Audubon’s March-April newsletter. “It’s not a crocus,” they say. Correct. It ...

In the early 18th century, about the same time as people in England were collecting auriculas, the Japanese of the Edo period were concentrating on hepaticas. Hepaticas are still a Japanese cult plant ...

As the days get longer and the sun warms the forest floor, hepatica flowers start emerging. These charming early bloomers captivated the writer and naturalist John Burroughs, who extolled their ...