Shy beauty…

Mayapple @2013 Pamela Breitberg
Mayapple @2013 Pamela Breitberg
Mayapple flower 2013 copyright Pamela Breitberg
Mayapple flower 2013 copyright Pamela Breitberg

Mayapples’ blooms hide under umbrella-like leaves on the forest floor. This seemingly shsy flower appropriately named blooms in May and its fruit resembles a miniature unripe apple. For those who don’t mind kneeling on the cool, water soaked, spring land, you can see their beauty.

Mayapple 2 copyright2013 Pamela Breitberg
Mayapple 2 copyright2013 Pamela Breitberg

For more information on Mayapples see “May in April”, posted April 17, 2012.

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