Delaware Wildflowers • Months

Puttyroot
Aplectrum hyemale
Orchidaceae — Orchid family
Rare native
Puttyroot
White Clay Creek State Park -- Thompson Station Road
May 2007
Puttyroot
Flint Woods
May 2006
Puttyroot
Puttyroot
The plant is only about a foot high.

Puttyroot
White Clay Creek State Park -- Possum Hill
May 2012
Puttyroot
White Clay Creek State Park -- Possum Hill
April 2013
Puttyroot
Puttyroot
Woodlawn Tract
January 2015
Puttyroot
The developing flower stalk is visibly at left.
White Clay Creek State Park -- Possum Hill
May 2015

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