It's the Trilliums we all look forward to here in Ontario, but they're actually among the last of the spring wildflowers to bloom here. I doubt they'll be putting on their best display yet, but the way the weather is looking they may well be very soon. Go out in a week or two and you'll see lots of them, as long as you know the right place to go!
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Let me speak to that first. The single best spot for finding a wide variety of spring wildflowers in the Beaver Valley is the Mac Kirk Side Trail up on Old Baldy, the rocky cliff overlooking the village of Kimberley. This is a wildflower walk I led there a few years back.
I should say before I forget, there are lots of less conspicuous spring wildflowers that I'm not covering here, including numerous different tiny wild violets like this white one.
The Wild Ginger is a flower many would miss, because it lies flat on the ground underneath these large green furry leaves, and it's reddish-brown so it doesn't stand out.
The Bellwort has a soft yellow flower that dangles below the leaves.
And there's the Jack-in-the-Pulpit, the unusual flower followed later by a cluster of bright red berries.
The Red Trillium emerges a little before the White Trillium here, and if you can get a picture backlit by the sun the colour is spectacular!
But it's the White Trillium we all wait for, Ontario's official flower, and a large showy bloom to boot.
In the woods behind the Old Baldy cliff is the best display of White Trillium that I know of; there are hundreds of flowers in among the trees and it's just beautiful to see! Enjoy your walk in the woods!