Char-Mar Ridge Preserve Tours

A cornucopia or a smorgasbord of Ohio spring wildflowers.

Front and center is Toadshade (Trillium sessile) with its three red petals that remain upright.

Also in this shot are Yellow Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum), Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica) and purple violas.

Char-Mar Ridge Preserve is a 128 acre preserve with a 1.7 mile loop trail. Plenty of spring wildflowers and a pond with a wildlife viewing blind.

Yellow Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum) blooming in front of the artfully posed uprooted tree.

Yellow Trout Lily is named after the mottled pattern found on its leaves that resemble the skin of a trout.

Char-Mar Ridge Preserve is a 128 acre preserve with a 1.7 mile loop trail. Plenty of spring wildflowers and a pond with a wildlife viewing blind.

A view on the trail at Char Mar Ridge Preserve, one of the Preservation Parks of Delaware County. The 1 1/4 mile forested loop trail contains many spring wildflowers, glacial erratics and a wildlife viewing blind of the pond.

Yellow Trout Lily is named after the mottled pattern found on its leaves that resemble the skin of a trout.

Char-Mar Ridge Preserve is a 128 acre preserve with a 1.7 mile loop trail. Plenty of spring wildflowers and a pond with a wildlife viewing blind.

The aptly named Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica) with its white petals with glittery pink stripes.

Odd facts about Spring Beauty;

It is said the stripes on the petals act as runway markers to direct insects to its pollen.

The Iroquois would eat the raw roots, believing that they permanently prevented conception.

The Algonquin people, cooked the underground corm and ate them like potatoes.

Char-Mar Ridge Preserve is a 128 acre preserve with a 1.7 mile loop trail. Plenty of spring wildflowers and a pond with a wildlife viewing blind.

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