Yesterday I wrote about coltsfoot but it’s not the first native wildflower to bloom in western Pennsylvania. That honor goes to snow trillium (Trillium nivale).
I looked for snow trillium last weekend at Raccoon Creek Wildflower Reserve and found the leaves but the deer had eaten all the flowers. 🙁
Dianne and Bob Machesney found these blooming at Cedar Creek Park in Westmoreland County.
Thankfully there are fewer deer at Cedar Creek.
(photo by Dianne Machesney)
These are also here in SW Ohio but are very hard to find!
That’s very unfortunate about the deer eating the snow trilliums at Raccoon Creek. I got to see my first snow trilliums blooming last week along the Montour Trail in Washington County. We have a lot of deer in Washington County so I hope the deer won’t notice them!
In my garden in eastern ontario the green is just popping up 🙂
We saw 3 today in North Park. On a steep hill where the deer did not get to them.