Early in spring, in February and March, the forest floor comes to life with thousands of little white flowers, their delicate blossoms hovering over a bed made of fresh green leaves. It’s Anemonoides nemorosa (syn.: Anemone nemorosa), commonly known as wood anemone which belongs to the Ranunculaceae family, the same family as the buttercup. The flowers pop up early in spring catching the first sunshine hours before the trees shoot out their leaves and cover the forest floor in shade. Hence they are an important food source for bees and other pollinators at the end of the cold season.
I love to go through the light forests in early spring since the floor is covered with all the early flowering plants, like violets, fumeworts, yellow anemones and of course the omnipresent wood anemones. You can easily catch me crawling on the floor trying to take good shots of all those flowers. Have a look at some of my pictures I took the other day in a little botanical garden in the North of my city:
I was also lucky to catch some early bees on camera, collecting pollen:
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