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Violet Wood-sorrel

Violet Wood-sorrel

Oxalis violacea

Flowers–Pinkish purple, lavender, or pale magenta; less than 1 in. long; borne on slender stems in umbels or forking clusters, each containing from 3 to 12 flowers. Calyx of 5 obtuse

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Skunk or Swamp Cabbage

Skunk or Swamp Cabbage

Symplocarpus foetidus

Flowers–Minute, perfect, foetid; many scattered over a thick, rounded, fleshy spadix, and hidden within a swollen, shell-shaped, purplish-brown to greenish-yellow, usually mottled, spathe, close to the ground, that appears

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Black Cohosh; Black Snakeroot; Tall Bugbane

Black Cohosh; Black Snakeroot; Tall Bugbane

Cimicifuga racemosa

Flowers–Foetid, feathery, white, in an elongated wand-like raceme, 6 in. to 2 ft. long, at the end of a stem 3 to

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White or True Wood-sorrel; Alleluia

White or True Wood-sorrel; Alleluia

Oxalis acetosella

Flowers–White or delicate pink, veined with deep pink, about 1/2 in. long. Five sepals; 5 spreading petals rounded at tips; 10 stamens, 5 longer, 5 shorter, all anther-bearing;

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Wood Anemone; Wind-flower

Wood Anemone; Wind-flower

Anemone quinquefolia

Flowers–Solitary, about 1 in. broad, white or delicately tinted with blue or pink outside. Calyx of 4 to 9 oval, petal-like sepals; no petals; stamens and carpels numerous, of indefinite

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Jack-in-the-Pulpit; Indian Turnip

Jack-in-the-Pulpit; Indian Turnip

Arisaema triphyllum

Flowers–Minute, greenish yellow, clustered on the lower part of a smooth, club-shaped, slender spadix within a green and maroon or whitish-striped spathe that curves in a broad-pointed flap above it.

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