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Slideshow Spring Ephemerals

April 27, 2017

Small is beautiful as spring ephemerals carpet a campus hillside.

Ephemerals — spring flowers that prosper and blossom before trees shade them for the summer — are at their peak on Muir Woods, between Bascom Hall and Lake Mendota. Trout lily and toothwort are most common, but bloodroot, wild ginger, solomon’s seal and others can also be seen.

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