The MN wildflower blog

It was a beautiful day today and I took a quick tour around Long Lake Regional Park. In the woods by Rush Lake, I saw the kidney-shaped leaves of little-leaf buttercup coming up. They are one of the early bloomers. The first leaves are coming out on a variety of shrubs, too, mostly gooseberry and elderberry.

On the prairie, prairie smoke is starting to sprout but it will be a few weeks yet before anything blooms. Pussytoes should be leafing up as well, though I didn’t see them.

Tags: Long Lake Park, nature, prairie, spring, Wildflowers

This entry was posted on Friday, April 17th, 2009 at 9:29 pm by K Chayka and is filed under Field Reports. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.