Identifying wildflowers and plants

“I took a photo of this emerging flower April 19 in a hardwood forest in southern Minnesota. It looks to just be emerging, whatever it is? Sooooooo... what is it??? Thanks!!

http://www.thebackpacker.com/pictures/pic/yooecat7o09.php”

“It looks like a Fiddlehead a type of eatable fern. I'm not 100% so if you see another, don't try eating it.”

“Five of us were hiking today and identified the following wildflower (or so with thought, book in hand, lol!)

Bloodroot, Dutchman's Breeches, white dogtooth violet (also known as a trout lily), rue anemone, bluebells, spring beauties, violets, marsh marigolds and probably hepatica.”

“Hey, lumberzac, you might just be right. I could envision my photo becoming this photo:

click on the fiddlehead fern photo at http://digitalscenic.com/gallery5.htm”

“It is a fern. They all pretty much have fiddleheads in the spring. I bet it's an ostrich fern speciffically. Maybe a Christmas fern.”

“It's a Southern Minnesota Hardwood Forest Flower...They're found mainly in hardwood forests in and around southern Minnesota”

“LOL@ thrifty....you beat me to it...I was gonna say "Something Green"”

“D-O-R-K-S

!!!!!!!!!!!

lol”

“Around here, only ostrich ferns are called fiddleheads as they are the edible ones...the one you took a picture of is NOT an ostrich fern.”