Find a safe place to park and ask for landowner permission before taking a closer look. Remember to look in your own garden or in that patch of weeds behind the garage early on frosty fall mornings. Frost flowers can bloom in the most delightfully unpredictable places. When I was a little girl, I found my first frost flowers in an abandoned woodlot. On frosty Ozark mornings, I choose to believe the fairies are still at work.
Frost flowers occur in many parts of the world and all across the state of Missouri.
However, only a few species of plants produce frost flowers Frost flowers have a brief life span so early morning is the best time to find them. The first rays of the sun soften their delicate edges and, well before noon, they will be completely melted. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of the Missouri Dept. of Conservation is prohibited.