spring ephemeral

noun

any of various woodland wildflowers that appear above ground in early spring, flower and fruit, and die in a short two-month period.

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If you’ve got daffodils and tulips in your garden, you’re already growing a type of spring ephemeral.

That was Corydalis solida or C. flexuosa, a spring ephemeral with a tuberous root system.

A related species, Andrena uvulariae, targeted bellwort, also a spring ephemeral.

Spring ephemeral: That phrase, with the promise in the first word and the fleeting in the second, says it all.

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