March is about the forest floor. Life is anew. Spring ephemeral wildflowers begin to crowd the dirt, displacing last year’s leaf litter with their hunger for sunlight. One of the first wildflowers to show at Riverbend Regional Park along the Potomac Heritage Trail in Northern Virginia is the Bloodroot (Sanguinaria).
Bloodroot is a single white flower with one very large basal leaf. At first, the leaf literally wraps the flower bud like a soft embrace. As the leaf unfurls, the bud flowers. The reddish rhizome has orange sap, giving this wildflower it’s name. I find large quantities of these wildflowers on the banks of the Potomac River and along the Potomac Heritage Trail. These sandy, floodplains are well known in the area for their botanical diversity.
Lens: Nikkor 60mm micro f2.8 @ 60mm
Tripod: Really Right Stuff TVC-33
Date taken: March 18, 2020
Settings: f6.3, 1/200 second, iso-250
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