Winter aconite (Eranthis) just started showing the yellow flower buds yesterday, March 3, 2010. This is at Purdue Horticulture gardens. You can also find winter aconite at Clegg Gardens, east of Lafayette.
None of the early-blooming plants in the last three posts (aconite, snowdrops, daffodils) are native to Indiana. All of them are poisonous. This time of year there is not much for rodents to eat, the poison could be a strategy these early plants have to keep their whole populations from being consumed by hungry mice.
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