From ten feet away, the forest near our house looks dead. Naked trunks jut out of the bare earth.
But if you step a little closer, the forest is blooming. On a walk last week, I spotted three native spring ephemerals that I’d never even heard of before. I only identified them with help from my Seek app.
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