Moon phase: Waxing gibbous Weather: Warm with alternating blue skies and grey clouds Phenology: Daylilies are blooming Spring beauty (Claytonia virginica) is a lovely little spring ephemeral. Not only are they gorgeous (white petals with delicate pink/red stripes), but you can eat the tubers. Of course, the tubers are tiny, so it would probably take a while to harvest enough for a meal, but in some places they blanket the forest floor, and if you were dedicated enough, you could do it. There's another species called Carolina spring beauty (C. caroliniana) with wider leaves, which I've never seen around DC, but we saw them a lot in my Woodland Plants class in Wisconsin. These photos were taken in Rock Creek Park right on the DC/Maryland line.