The big spring at Black Rock woods. Most of the stones under the moss are quartz and jasper.Before E
The big spring at Black Rock woods. Most of the stones under the moss are quartz and jasper.Before Europeans settled here, each of its twelve or so springs must have been full of delicate native wildflowers. The dwindling numbers of wildflowers left in the tiny wood, like hepatica, bloodroot, miterwort (ONE plant left), rue anemone, Cimicifuga, and a few others, must be the remnants of a glorious grouping of amazing plants still found around undisturbed springs in eastern Pennsylvania, like showy orchis, gold thread, Indian cucumber root, fringed polygala and many others. How I wish I could see this heavily-used wood, now overgrown with garlic mustard, as it once was! No wonder the Germans called it Schön Eck, Beautiful Corner, and the creek formed by all those springs is still the Schoeneck Creek. -- source link
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