Fern fiddleheads unrolling along the Trillium Trail, Fox Chapel.
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Fiddleheads
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A Walk in the Bluebell Forest
Virginia bluebells line a trail in Fox Chapel.
Bluebells are not necessarily always blue, as you can learn at our sister site Flora Pittsburghensis.
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Apple Blossoms in Mellon Park
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Grape Hyacinth (Muscari neglectum)
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Tulips
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Stream Valley in Bird Park, Mount Lebanon
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Daffodil in the Rain
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A Forest of Moss
If you look at it through a jeweler’s loupe, you find that moss comes in fascinatingly different forms. You also discover something of its habits, such as the way it traps tiny droplets of water.
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Bicolor Grape Hyacinth
Muscari latifolium is not nearly as popular as the common grape hyacinth, M. neglectum, but it adds interest to an early-spring display.
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Fox Squirrel
Sciurus niger in Bird Park, Mount Lebanon. This is the largest of our tree squirrels, easily confused with the almost-as-big grey squirrel (Sciurus calolinensis), but usually distinguishable by a certain amount of brownish coloring, which the grey squirrel seldom has.
