Mayapples In the Rain

We call these plants Mayapples. (Also known by many other names, as you can see below.)  I snapped this view on a hike thought the woods, during a very light rain.

In early spring, these lush green umbrella-like plants can fill patches of the forest floor.

Here’s some information available on Wikipedia…

Podophyllum peltatum, commonly called Mayapple, or May Apple, (or hogapple, Indian apple, mayflower, umbrella plant, wild lemon (flavor of the fruit), wild mandrake, American mandrake (shape of rhizomes) or “devil’s apple” (used for Solanum linnaeanum elsewhere)), is a herbaceous perennial plant in the Family Berberidaceae, native todeciduous forests in of eastern North America. Like many other spring ephemerals, it emerges from below ground before the canopy of the forest opens, and then slowly withers later in the summer; the foliage is, however, somewhat more long-lived than other spring emphemerals such as Trillium.

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