Today I drove to the woods about 30 - 40 kilometers north of my hometown.
The branches of the trees are still mostly barren, but down on the ground covered with the thick carpet made of fallen leaves, I found a bunch of interesting flowers.
Those flowers, you can see them in this and the previous photograph ...
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... belong to the Corydalis cava plant.
Here you can take a look at the scenery.
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Corydalis cava is a plant from the Papaveraceae family that can be seen only in moist & shady woodland habitats.
The flowers are very interesting. From a certain angle, they look like little animals to me.
As I was portraiting the flowers, sparse small clouds were floating across the vast blue sky.
At one point, one of those clouds ended up covering the sun. This photograph was taken when the light has changed.
On the nearby dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) I photographed the Agriotes gallicus click beetle (Elateridae family)
Here you can see the small leaves of some plant that I wasn't able to identify. The leaves form a structure that resembles a feather.
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This is a shield bug that looks like some kind of seed.
I found it in the leaf litter.
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The name of the species is Sciocoris macrocephalus. I never encountered this shield bug before.
Here you can see another insect that inhabits the leaf litter. It's a very small cricket. The name of the species is Mogoplistes brunneus.
This is a portrait of the sedge in bloom.
can't tell you the name of the species ...
... but the genus is Carex ...
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... and the family Cyperaceae.
Here you can see the flowers and fruits of the Cardamine hirsuta plant.
in this photograph, I got closer to the tinny white flowers.
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Here you can see some kind of crust on the Rosa canina shrub. Can't tell you what is this exactly. Dried-out slime mold, maybe.
