Stillman Nature Center

It is the peculiar design of its blossom that has earned this plant its common name. It sports a striped green hood or "pulpit" which curls over "Jack," a club-shaped organ known as a spadix.

This common daisy is found across the eastern U.S. in old fields, pastures, and roadsides. A perennial, it blooms from May through August.

Be careful! “Leaves of three, let it be; berries white, take flight” Indeed, poison ivy is a vine sporting three leaflets.

The early blooming flowers that decorate the forest floor are welcome signs of spring. Many of these plants will sprout, mature, flower, and produce seeds during the period after the snow melts and before the trees fully leaf out.