The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #89891   Message #1699064
Posted By: open mike
20-Mar-06 - 06:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: You know that it's Spring when...
Subject: RE: BS: You know that it's Spring when...
i thought the seven heads were snowwhite's dwarves..

i remember hearing one little old lady say
"You're as welcome as a daisy in June"

in the woods here one of the first spring bloomers is the shooting star
http://www.painetworks.com/previewsrf/hw/hw1339.html
http://www.easywildflowers.com/quality/dod.mead.jpg
http://www.calflora.net/bloomingplants/shootingstar.html
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/inhsreports/may-jun96/flowers.html
http://www.ventanawild.org/news/se02/shooting.html

i believe they are the wild cousins of the Cyclamen
which are also in the Primrose or Primula family..