oh, how far you are from home 🌳🌿🍃

Glowing Tree- Alexandra Dvornikova

From top: Painted trillium (Trillium undulatum), a sylphlike spirit of old mossy woods; running clubmoss (Lycopodium clavatum) and young ferns lay seige to a rotting stump; wild sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis), often mistaken for ginseng, with clusters of ball-like white flowers; a mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum), whose distinctive, palmately-lobed leaves shield a single white flower; heartleaf foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia), a lover of moist forest coves and seeps; the pendulous yellow flowers and graceful, arching stems of smooth Solomon's seal (Polygonatum biflorum); the gaudy, pouch-like flowers of the pink lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium acaule), which function as highly effective bee lures for pollination (note that one of the flowers in the lower photo is pure white, a rare genetic mutation); and a young red eft (Notophthalmus viridescens) starts its perilous journey to adulthood.

I <3 doing these type of « moodboard » (idk if I can use this word for this type of editing) 🌲🪵