Virginia American Beauty Blooms

Fairy flowers 🧚🧚‍♀️🧚‍♂️

The little Spring Beauty flowers are blooming! Their real name is Virginia Claytonia. They grow over half of North America and  are a  low plant with loose clusters of pink or whitish flowers, striped with dark pink. The Plant disappears from above ground shortly after the seed capsules have ripened. You’ll see these in large spectular patches. They grow from an underground tuber like a small potato and have a sweet, chestnut-like flavor. Native Americans and colonists used them for food and they are still enjoyed by those interested in edible wild plant.

The green area is where the little fairy flower grows.

Here is what the little tubers look like. I’m thinking of digging some after these bloom and wither.