Each week over the six-month growing season (early April through late September), you can use this website to experience breathtaking displays of wildflowers around Chicago. SUBSCRIBE NOW (for free) to receive our weekly wildflower reports to learn when and where these wonderful events are taking place.Īpril begins our sixth season of ChicagoNatureNOW!. See the slideshow below for a preview of spring wildflowers. And this is just the first month of spring. And as the month ends, a flourish as endless expanses of Virginia bluebells fill woodlands with a smell that I can only describe as a fragrant, floral Chanel version of Froot Loops cereal. Soon after will come performances from an array of diminutive spring wildflowers, like cutleaf toothwort, Dutchman’s breeches, and spring beauty. (Learn about where to find it.) Beginning in April, Chicago nature will put on a show in the muddy bottoms of some woodlands, with the emergence of marsh marigolds. Nature! Right now, you can experience the solitude of nature and find delight in Mother Nature’s whimsical surprises and creations, like the otherworldly skunk cabbage that generates its own heat to melt the late-winter snow. Now that spring is in the air, we can finally get outside and get a dose of the best medicine around. (Please be patient, it can take a little time to load.) The new season is upon us, and this is the perfect time to help by donating here.* And ChicagoNatureNOW! brings these moments like this to you every week from April through September. In early May, Black Partridge Woods becomes an emerald dream.
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