One of the first wildflowers to bloom in spring, Twinleaf is not a common flower for me to see in southeast Michigan.
I’m used to spotting Yellow Trout Lilies, Rue Anemone, and Great White Trilliums in the forest when I go birding in spring, before trees and shrubs leaf out.
They often blanket the forest floor, along with skunk cabbages, one of the first plants to emerge after a long Michigan winter.
Thanks to a fellow birder, I rediscovered Twinleaf this spring, at Nichols Arboretum in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Twinleaf has a single white flower with distinctive leaves. Each leaf is deeply cut into two leaflets, looking like a butterfly with its wings spread outward.
With the flip-flop weather we’re having this spring in southeast Michigan (we may have snow showers mixed with rain in two days), we still have spring wildflowers that have yet to bloom this year.
I’m hoping the coming week, the first week of May, will mark the end of the constantly changing cold/hot temperature and we’ll finally have spring weather.
