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Eliza Waters 
What a beautiful image! And what a cool plant!
Thank you, Dale! They are rather unique. 🙂
Truly!
I have learned about a new plant today 🙂
Wonderful! It is a remarkable one for sure.
It looks sad?
🙂 It has just emerged from the ground and will expand its leaves like an umbrella and a single white flower will bloom from from the stem. Will try to post that. 🙂
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We don’t get these here, but I imagine their appeal is that they signal warmer weather…. Am I missing something?!
They are another of our unique spring ephemerals that disappear as the weather warms. They have colonized this patch rather quickly as they are stoloniferous. I’ll try to post their flower as they open.
Reblogged this on Anita Dawes and Jaye Marie.
So unusual, are we still on Earth?
Ha, yes, they do have a bit of an alien look to them! 🙂 Thanks for reblogging. 🙂
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Love mine, now I must check out on my east side to see if mine are popping up as I have been busy working and doing the back yard. Have a great day when the sun shines 🙂
Thank you, Eunice!
I went to look, and I have 8 up 6 inches so far.
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Very pretty. Reminds me of a drenched umbrella. ☔
Thank you, Barbara. Yes, and they open like one, too. 🙂
Beautiful. My thought was similar to Barbara’s in that it reminds me of an umbrella. 🙂
Thank you, Robin. They expand out like an umbrella, too. 🙂
I have always wondered what these are called. Just saw lots of them yesterday along the trail. 😊
The leaves expand like an umbrella. Squat down and look underneath for the flower next time you pass by. They make great macros! 😉
I had no idea! I will definitely go back to have a look. 😊
A very unique plant…I learned about it, after we walked in a forest, near here & it took me a while to ID. Interesting plant to read about & watch YouTube about the edibility of the…initially poisonous… fruit.
I think the root is used to treat warts. 🙂
Interesting native plant that I have not yet seen! I will have to see whether it grows around where we live.
It makes quite a statement for individuality. 🙂 Moist woodlands is its habitat.
I’ve never seen this. It is native to parts of east Texas, but somewhat ironically, it doesn’t appear in the two counties I frequent. I’d bet it’s because those areas are drier and sandier; they’re surrounded by counties with national forests, and if I’d move a little to the east or west, I’ll bet I could find them. On the other hand, I’ll also bet that their bloom almost is done here.
Yes, they like moist woodlands and their emergence and flowering take about two weeks. The ‘apple’ appears a few weeks later, then once the fruit matures, the leaves begin to fade. They spread by stolons and quickly colonize an area.
Then I might have a chance to find the fruit. I’ll check iNaturalist to see where the recent sightings have been.
Good luck!
They do only last a short time and I usually don’t make it up North in time to see them.
There are cultivars that don’t spread rapidly, then there are the wild ones that go crazy. Ask me how I know! 😉
Seeing this new sapling, it reminds me like ‘Life just started”
Newly born!
I’ll have to look out for these. A curious looking plant.
They are esp. odd-looking at this stage, but more ‘normal’ once they leaf out. They grow in large colonies, so if you find one, you’ll find a dozen. 😉
Such interesting plants. They look like little aliens.
I agree, however, once the leaves unfold they look a bit less strange. 🙂
I’ve never seen one of these — thanks for the introduction!
My pleasure, Debbie!
Interesting looking plant. Would like to see it fully open
Thanks, Karina. I will try to post a photo once it blooms in a week or so.
Mine just popped up few days ago. They’ve never flowered for the few years since I planted them but I am hoping that it just takes awhile for the plant to get established. Maybe this will be the year. Love all that moisture on yours.
Thanks, Steve. Once they get established, they go gangbusters!
Bedraggled and beautiful!
Thank you, Val. They look a bit like someone with hunched shoulders in a cold rain!
Your mayapples must have felt a little impatient. Who cares what the calendar says?😊
Well, they emerge and flower first, then come the ‘apples’ in May. 🙂 I’ll try to post both the flower and fruit stages.
It’s good that they know what they are doing, since I obviously don’t know what I’m talking about. 🙂
I look forward to see the plant’s other stages.
🙂
After looking at this wonderful capture, I will now be on the lookout for this new plant!🙂 Have you been getting snow along with the rain in your area?
A bit of hail yesterday, lots of rain lately, definitely a welcome thing. Mayapples like moist, acidic woodlands. Very interesting plant!
Glad to see spring is coming! This tiny, ‘maybe maple’ is full of hope … very nice!
Thank you!
It’s amazing how they push right through the carpet of leaves from the past fall!
They are a tough plant, quite unstoppable!
I imagined seeing a frog’s leg at the lower left. This plant looks so different from the common member of the barberry family that we have in Austin [https://portraitsofwildflowers.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/an-agarita-bush-flowering/].
It is surprising to see that it is classified with this usually prickly family!
Yes, botanists are sometimes pretty prickly folks.
Great photo ~ I’ve never seen such a plant before… very cool 🙂
Thank you, it is a rather unusual plant. I plan on posting a shot when it flowers (soon) and then later the fruit (‘apple’) that forms.
I look forward to see the future photos of this ~ it will be fun to see how it evolves 🙂 I assume the fruit/apple is edible?
Only the ripe fruit is edible, the unripe and foliage is toxic. But I leave it to the wildlife. 🙂
Have never seen this one, Eliza. Love your photo. 🙂
Thank you, Jane. It is so odd looking when it first emerges!