Dates I first saw plants in my gardens:

Plant	Leaves	Flowers
Bee balm Monarda fistulosa	March 23
Blueflag iris Iris versicolor	March 19	June 8
Wild ginger Asarum canadense	April 20	April 27
Large-flowered trillium Trillium grandiflorum
Jack-in-the-pulpit Arisaema triphyllum
Sharp-lobed hepatica Anemone acutiloba
Spring beauty Claytonia virginica
Early meadow rue Thalictrum dioicum
Large-flowered bellwort Scientific
Sessile trillium Trillium sessile
Rue anemone Thalictrum thalictroides
Wild columbine Aquilegia canadensis
Golden Alexanders Zizia aurea
Yarrow Achillea millefolium		June 6
White turtlehead Chelone glabra
Turtlehead “hot lips” Chelone lyonii
Cup plant Silphium perfoliatum
Culver’s root Veronicastrum virginicum
Gray-headed coneflower Ratibida pinnata
Purple coneflower Echinacea purpurea
Blue vervain Verbena hastata
White vervain Verbena urticifolia
Spiderwort Scientific		June 6
Phlox Scientific
Purple giant hyssop Scientific
Pearly everlasting Scientific
Prairie blazingstar Liatris sp.
Meadow blazingstar Liatris sp.
Rough blazingstar Liatris sp.
Fleabane 1 Scientific
Fleabane 2 Scientific