One of the fun aspects of wandering over the land where PawPaw and I are going to build our home is seeing all the different wildflowers. We bought a Tennessee Wildflower identification book — which PawPaw has. I took some pictures - not the greatest in the world, but okay for identifying the flowers. The “Sweet Betsy” is the most unusual — three spotted leaves (are they called “varigated”?) with a dark red flower spiking up in the middle. The whitish flowers are “something-or-other Toothworth”. I remember the toothwort part, but not the rest. They’re pretty, aren’t they?
























April 19th, 2006 at 8:51 am
I had heard this trillium called Purple Toadshade, but I didn’t know the Sweet Betsy name. They are in bloom on our school’s nature trail right now.
Nice pics.