#two-leaf miterwort

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Plants coming up in the woods this morning: yellow jewelweed and two-leaf miterwort. Spring things!

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The dreary weather persisted today, so I blew off a planned trip to Ohiopyle and hiked several trails along Clay Run in Coopers Rock State Forest instead. The pink lady’s slipper orchids (Cypripedium acaule) are now coming into bloom, reminding me that May is just around the corner.  From top: flowering dogwood (Cornus florida); the plummeting green-yellow flowers of striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum); broadleaf toothwort (Cardamine diphylla); Canada violet (Viola canadensis); two-leaf miterwort (Mitella diphylla); Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum); and pink lady’s slipper orchid.

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Two-leaf miterwort, Mitella diphylla. Yesterday along the Schoeneck Creek. These are so special to me, with their petals like feathers.

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Two-leaf miterwort and its feathery flowers.

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Mitella diphylla, Twoleaf miterwort, this morning at Black Rock.

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Hepatica, Mitella diphylla, and Impatiens pallida. The woods are awakening!

In English, that’s round-lobed hepatica, two-leaf miterwort, and pale jewelweed. 

Round-lobed hepatica has a bunch of different Latin names. In this case, the English name is less confusing.

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Two-leaf Miterwort, Mitella diphylla.

April 2013.