Inside The New York Botanical Garden

Morning Eye Candy: Shakespearean

Posted in Photography on April 18 2013, by Ann Rafalko

What’s in a name? Ask dogtooth and bloodroot. Together they kind of sound like the beginning of a Shakespearean curse or insult, no? And yet, they’re such beautiful ephemeral spring wildflowers!

bloodroot

Bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis ‘Multiplex.’

dogtooth-violet

Dogtooth Violet Erythronium americanum

Photos by Ivo M. Vermeulen