The air is sweet with floral aromas. In bloom are irises, peonies, showy ladyslippers, wild roses, Russian Olives, Catalpa flowers, alfalfa, clematis, Canada thistle, lilies, clovers, grapes. Strawberries are ripening. The best picking times are mid to late June. Wild strawberry eaters are robins, catbirds, thrashers, flickers, rodents, raccoons, foxes, chickens and wild fowl, slugs.
Strawberries are weird they bear their seeds on the outsides of their fleshy fruits.
No other plants do this. The last of the elm trees mature their seeds in June. Seeds that land on bare river-borned silt or disturbed soil germinate in six to twelve days. The best conditions for germination are on nights following hot humid days. Late June Wild columbine flowers finish blooming and the 5-chambered seed capsules begin to swell.