Looking down as you stroll through the forest you'll likely see the spring ephemerals flowering - trillium, blue cohosh, round and sharp lobed hepatica, and many more. These transient beauties take advantage of warming weather and sunlight shining through (mostly) leafless trees to bloom, seed, and return to vegetative for another year. What I find remarkable is finding ephemerals underneath giant honeysuckles or buckthorn canopies, tucked away unseen until someone comes along and tears out their cover. (The fun part is working around such beautiful and fragile denizens of the forest floor.) They won't be there next year - there'll be too much sun once the invasives are removed - but their doubly ephemeral presence helps envision what a damaged landscape could look like given a chance.
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