White Trout Lily

Here is one of the lovely spring wildflowers I photo- graphed on yesterday's mushroom hunt. (I got skunked on the mush- rooms!) It's the WHITE TROUT LILY: also known as Adder's Tongue, Dog's-tooth Violet, Serpent's Tongue, Trout Lily, Deer Tongue, and Yellow Snowdrop.  I found it very interesting to read that in Native American nature lore, the Onondaga women used the leaves as a temporary birth control method in the spring, to avoid giving birth in the most frigid part of winter. There's a lot of wisdom in that idea!