4/9 - Spring Plant Recap

The first to appear:

Dandelions
Chives
Garlic Mustard

First flowers:

Forsythia - bright yellow shrubs all over campus!
Maple trees - turned the hillsides red with their early flowers

Quince bushes - dark peach/red color
Shadbush - added white puffs throughout our forest with their recent flowering

Emerging leaves:

Honeysuckle shrubs - began in mid-March; leaves are now 1/2 inch long

Cherry trees - itty bitty with finely serrated edges
Maple trees - recently emerged in a flush of red and green

Tamarack needles - this unique conifer had emerging needles on 3/31, and they're now 1/4 inch long, in starburst clusters along the stem