The daffodils and tulips are thriving and the magnolia trees are blooming. The rebirth of the land after rainy, chilly start to spring always feels like a reward.
Here in Massachusetts, our state wildflower is the Epigaea repens or Mayflower.
The name Epigaea repens translates to ‘trailing on the Earth,’ which is an apt description of the way mayflower grows — its long, woody stems clinging tightly to the ground. Learn more about Massachusetts' state flower at grownativemass.org
Mayflower
by Emily Dickinson
Pink, small, and punctual,
Aromatic, low,
Covert in April,
Candid in May,
Dear to the moss,
Known by the knoll,
Next to the robin
In every human soul.
Bold little beauty,
Bedecked with thee,
Nature forswears
Antiquity.
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