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| Blue-Eyed Marys. These colorful wildflowers are usually widespread across moist wooded floodplains and gently sloping, north facing upland wooded slopes. Colonies can be several hundred square feet in coverage on the forest floor. |
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| Fire Pink. Occurs mainly on dry upland south-facing wooded slopes commonly under stands of oak and hickory. Bright red flowers with notches on the ends of the petals make this plant easily identifiable in the field. |
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| Golden Ragwort. A generalist in terms of habitat, golden ragwort can be found from roadsides to deep within wooded areas. The plant somewhat resembles hawkweed, but has a purplish stalk and larger flowers. Commonly encountered. |
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| Cut-Leaf Toothwort. Though not as small as the spring beauty, cut-leaf toothwort could be easily overlooked if it weren't for its tendency to be widespread across the forest floor. Is somewhat of a generalist in terms of habitat. It seems to grow well as long as there is tree cover with not too much moisture in the soil. A plant of folklore, early settlers believed it to be useful for curing toothaches. |
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| Wood Poppy. This colorful flower is one of the larger species in terms of petal diameter in the watershed measuring up to 2 inches. An easily recognizable plant when flowering as no other large yellow flowers occur in early spring in this area. The relatively large fleshy leaves are sometimes highlighted with a silvery mottling. Prefers moist low-land wooded slopes with rich deep soils, but will occasionally be found on upland slopes provided soils aren't too dry. Occurs in large colonies covering several dozen square feet where growing conditions are favorable. |
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