Cutleaf Toothwort Cut-leaved toothwort (Cardamine concatenata) blooms April through June The photo below shows some of the foliage. In southern Ohio they will bloom a little earlier and in northern Ohio a little later. As the sun grows high in the sky, they gradually collapse into deep blue planets. It also lists the months in which you can expect to see each species bloom in central Ohio. Candytuft are ground hugging and hardworking evergreen plants that can brighten up any corner in the garden with its tiny flower clusters that are starting to appear in spring. Unlike celestial bodies that survive in the billions, for billions of years, the stars of the Crouching Spider number only a few and shimmer for just a few hours.Ĭoinciding with Earth’s star, they emerge, not with a big bang, but slowly materializing from a golden hot center into three purple points. Purple coneflower’s blossoms can be harvested if you want to make a herbal tea. It rises at the end of May in the prairies and savannas, in a universe all its own, a small galaxy of blue starlike flowers that form the constellation of the Crouching Spider. The name is a consequence of its long slender leaves that break suddenly downward, mimicking the legs of a crouching spider.

Spiderwort is a prairie flower, as ethereal as it is enduring. To follow is possibly my favorite caption from my book, My Journey into the Wilds of Chicago: A Celebration of Chicagoland’s Startling Natural Wonders: This summer bloomer can be found most often in shades of blue, white and purple. By midafternoon, this spiderwort blossom melts blue between my fingertips. Also known as pincushion flowers, Scabiosa is an interesting flower with a pincushion-like center and an outer layer of petals.

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