the ephemerals.

In the woods, we search for spring ephemerals, the tiny ground-huggers that make the briefest of appearances. In weeks, the peepers will have gone silent and the spring beauties will again retreat into the earth. The maples f lush the faintest scarlet, and in the woods behind our farmhouse the spring ephemeral wildflowers are up: trout lily, trillium, bloodroot, spring beauty, Dutchman's breeches. [Extracted from the article]