Found a patch of wild trillium up at Eagle Creek today

I was hiking the loop trail this morning and just about stopped dead when I saw a whole patch of white trillium blooming under some old oaks. Must have been 30 or more plants all clustered together, which I never see that many in one spot around here. I knelt down for a good five minutes just looking at how the petals curl back. Has anyone else noticed them coming out earlier than usual this year?

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casey94329d ago

Last year I would have said they're always late April here. But I found a small cluster up near the creek bed on March 28th. That changed my mind completely. The soil there is wetter and stays warmer longer, so maybe that's the trick. I've been checking the same spot every week since and they keep popping up earlier.

robin77729d ago

My buddy Mark had this exact thing happen to him two seasons back. He swears it was the warm patch near the compost pile at his uncle's farm that turned everything around for him. He'd always been a 'wait till mid April' guy until he stumbled on a whole flush of morels around March 20th one year. Now he marks that spot on GPS and checks it religiously from the first warm rain. He told me it's all about the microclimate, not the calendar. Your creek bed story just reminded me of that whole thing, like the ground knows something the weather app doesn't.