Spring Highlights

• Carpets of Virginia bluebells
• White flowers, butterfly-shaped leaves of twinleaf
• Yellowish-green flowers and gray-green foliage of blue cohosh
• White and oddly shaped flowers of Dutchman’s breeches and squirrel-corn
• Small bright yellow flowers on northern spicebush
• Maroon flowers of pawpaw
• Many other spring wildflowers
• Sulphur-yellow, slender leaf buds at the tips of bitternut hickory twigs 

Summer Highlights

• Full green of summer leaves
• Deep shade of diverse species of tall, deciduous trees
• Lush growth on the forest floor
• Lime green fruit of mayapple 

Autumn Highlights

• Blue berries of blue cohosh
• Red berries of northern spicebush
• Light green pawpaw fruits, which may have brown spots as they ripen, late summer through October
• Changing leaf colors: yellow to deep purple leaves of white ash, yellow leaves of American basswood, orange-red leaves of sugar maple, bright yellow leaves of black maple, golden bronze of hickories 

Winter Highlights

• Interesting shapes and textures of tree trunks and bark: multiple trunks of American basswood; warty bark of hackberry; and the neatly and tightly woven fishnet look of bitternut hickory bark.