Spring is an exciting time for Wildflower enthusiasts! As soon as the New Year arrives we start counting the days until the first spring wildflowers appear in the woodlands. Here in northern Arkansas, the spring ephemerals usually begin flowering in early March. They have to brave the crazy March weather that varies between warm and sunny to cold and rainy or even snow. It's a feat for these plants to complete their entire above ground life cycle before the woodland canopy closes. Take a look at a small selection of these beautiful spring woodland wildflowers!

Most, but not all, of these woodland flowers are considered to be spring ephemerals. Spring ephemerals are fleeting– they emerge and bloom in the early spring, set seed and disappear back into the earth until the next spring calls them.

But spring is not all about the woodland wildflowers. The rocky glades begin flowering in March as well! Below is a small collection of the many gorgeous native flowers blooming in our glades.