The last piles of snow are melted, and early spring flowers are blooming! Welcome to May in Maine!

1. Bloodroot, in the poppy family, is my first flower of spring.

2. Bloodroot stems roots produce a red-orange juice.

3. Bloodroot have gorgeous petals, pistil and stamen.

4. Bloodroot leaves grow larger after the flower fades.

5. Apricot Whirl Daffodil

6. Apricot Whirl Pistil and Stamen

7. Las Vegas Daffodil blooms early to mid spring

8. Mount Hood
Daffodil
blooms mid-
spring.

9. Amadeus Mozart Daffodil

10. Amadeus Mozart Daffodil

11. These Pussy Willow catkins are female flowers on a female tree.

12. Silver hairs help insulate the developing reproductive parts.