Spring Ephemerals at Fraser Preserve, led by Margaret Chatham
Date/Time
Monday, April 7, 2025
11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Location
Fraser Preserve
Categories
Delayed Start due to rain: 11:00am.
Even those of you who made it to Turkey Run for its wonderful display of spring ephemerals may find Fraser Preserve’s different plant palette of interest.
At The Nature Conservancy’s Fraser Preserve, we’ll look for spring cress and yellow corydalis along with bluebells and spring beauties and more as we walk down and up hills on Fraser’s gravel road and natural surface trails, possibly traveling as much as 3 miles.
Park on Allenwood and gather at the corner of Allenwood and Springvale. Bring water, expect some mud, consider bringing a walking stick and anything else you need to feel comfortable in the woods (snacks, sunblock, insect repellent, binoculars…) There are no restrooms available to us at Fraser. Please, no dogs. Limited to 15 participants.
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Spring Cress (Cardamine bulbosa) photo by Margaret Chatham
Margaret Chatham is a Fraser Preserve Volunteer Visitation Committee Member who removes invasive barberry shrubs in winter and wavyleaf grass in summer and knows the preserve intimately. She is also editor of the VNPS Potowmack News newsletter, a volunteer at the VNPS propagation beds at Green Spring Gardens in Alexandria, and an Arlington Regional Master Naturalist.