#bottomland

Sad, Sad, Sad.  

This is Virginia Bluebells, Mertensia virginica.  

Formerly common throughout the bottomlands of the Mid-Atlantic region.  Now Bluebell land has more and more become Lesser Celandine land...an invader from the old world that simply wipes out the vernal communities of plants along streams and rivers.  

The loss of this habitat means the loss of a host of bee species that depend only on these bottomland flowers.  Difficult to control, Celandine, just simply takes over bottomlands and like the Zombie Apocalypse all you are left with afterwards is a shell that appears to be alive, but actually...is not.  Makes my fingers sad just typing this.  

This picture was taken by Helen Lowe Metzman Native Plant Champion.  Lovely those shades of pink to blue, too bad your children will only see it in gardens.

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