Not all flowers are beautiful, but they are all amazing. Can you find the flowers in this photo? The flowers are the tiny clay pots nestled among the leaf litter. I actually had to move the leaves in order to take the photo. These flowers are commonly called "little brown jugs" for obvious reasons.
They are the flower to a native wild ginger plant. The plants leaves will emerge soon. My variety is known as arrowtooth wild ginger which is common throughout the woodlands of the Eastern United States. Although I'm told that the rhizomes are edible and have a spicy flavor this is not the same plant as the ginger used in Asian cooking. It makes a nice shade ground cover and stays green almost year round.
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