Spring Highlights

• Spring wildflowers! White blooms of squirrel-corn, white fawnlily, harbinger-of-spring, ramp, and cutleaf toothwort, and the white or pink blooms of Virginia springbeauty
• Cream-colored, bell-like blooms of American bladdernut shrub

Summer Highlights

• Green and fairly lush
• Ferns (marginal woodfern)
• Green bladder-like papery seed capsules on American bladdernut (hard stony seeds inside)
• Yellow blooms of zigzag goldenrod and pale jewelweed
• White blooms of white wood-aster

Autumn Highlights

• Leaves changing colors—yellow leaves of bitternut hickory, yellow to orange leaves of black maple
• Squirrels and other animals eating bitternut hickory nuts, which are too bitter for humans
• American bladdernut seed capsules turning brown

Winter Highlights

• Bladdernuts—brown and papery seed capsules—still hanging on American bladdernut trees