#dwarf ginseng

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From my walk in the woods the other day. Treasures!

[greycatbird]

Went looking for Morels and didn't find any but I DID find some Mycena mushrooms, Eastern Newts, Foamflower, Painted Trillium, a big ol patch of Jack-in-the-pulpit (15 flowers!!), Threeleaf Goldthread, Dwarf Ginseng, and a Yellow-rumped Warbler💖

[vandaliatraveler]

Quebec Run Wild Area is a gorgeous reserve tucked away in a gentle bowl at the flank of Chestnut Ridge, just minutes from the more heavily visited (perhaps notoriously congested even) Ohiopyle State Park. While its neighbor to the north features dramatic waterfalls, rapids, and slides associated with the Youghiogheny River Gorge, Quebec Run Wild Area offers gentle mountain streams bordered by stunning old-growth hemlock forests and cascading rhododendron. More importantly, the trails are not heavily traveled and solitude is a real thing here. Photos above are from a hike yesterday on the Mill Run Trail.

From top: Skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) and wood anemone (Anemonoides quinquefolia) at the edge of Mill Run; dwarf ginseng (Panax trifolius); creeping phlox (Phlox stolonifera); pin cherry (Prunus pensylvanica), also known as fire cherry; marsh blue violet (Viola cucullata); Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense) growing up a moss-covered trunk; northern white violet (Viola minuscula), also known as smooth white violet; heartleaf foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia); sessile-leaf bellwort (Uvularia sessilifolia), also known as wild oats; green false hellebore (Veratrum viride), also known as corn lily; a patch of green false hellebore and skunk cabbage growing together along Mill Run; and halberd-leaved yellow violet (Viola hastata).

[aisling-saoirse]

Various flowers on the forest floor, NJ - April 2026

[dendroica]

Dwarf Ginseng, Panax trifolius (by me)

[windingriverherbals]

Springtime Herbs To Have On Hand

Springtime Herbs To Have On Hand

Traditionally, the days around the Vernal Equinox (mid to late March) and the month(s) after it was seen as a time of intense, rushing energy: days get longer and the sunlight more intense, the first signs of green growth emerge, and wildlife stirs again. Herbalists still consider this a time when the more inward, ‘congealing’ energies of Winter begin to transition into the more outward,…

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[vandaliatraveler]

Spring at Ohiopyle, Part 2: Jonathan Run.

The damp floodplain and wet seeps along Jonathan Run Trail produce truly fabulous spring wildflower displays, with peak color between the last week of April and the first two weeks of May. Two of my favorite spring bloomers thrive along this trail: dwarf ginseng (Panax trifolius), which has luckily escaped the over-harvesting that has made its larger relative ever more scarce, and creeping phlox (Phlox stolonifera), a gorgeous and hardy colonizer that should be in every native wildflower garden (it's now well established in my own). And if you can take your eyes off the wildflowers long enough, you'll be enchanted by the numerous cascades created by Jonathan Run's steep descent into the Youghiogheny River Gorge.

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Went looking for wildflowers while I was at the lake and I was not disappointed. The first 4 pictures are of rue anemone. I saw many thousands carpeting whole sections! What you see in those wider shots but more and more of it. Amazing. Trout lilies grew among them but are just starting to bloom. Back in the thicker woods I saw some dwarf ginseng, most of them still in bud, and in the thick moss along the road just a few bluets were opening up.

Wood anemones were only in bud. Pink lady slippers are just sprouts a few inches out of the ground. It was so good to be back among those friends again. I always wonder if I’ll make it to this time of year and now here we are! \o/