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RE: The Jacks Fork River - Photos From an April 2015 Float With My Son - Part Two

What a nice view of spring in the Ozarks! There are so many holes and caves in that country! I like all your flower photos - and the scientific names. The Ozarks is so full of local plant names, sometimes 3 or 4 for the same plant, lol. That's a nice forest, too, with those wildflowers. It shows a healthy forest that hasn't been taken over by invasive species. So nice!

It's nice seeing Mayapples. Their ripe fruits (completely yellow) smell and taste so tropical - almost like a passion fruit. When I lived in Michigan, I made Mayapple jam every year. If you ever see a white moth on a flower, that is really special!

It's nice to see the Wild Ginger, too! And the Redbud flowers. I enjoy using both of them. Most of the pollination of Redbud flowers is from bumblebees. So that's pretty nice to have a photo of that! Thanks for the walk -- and I hope you see lots of good woodland wildflowers this spring!