Ask Kay What's Blooming #1: Poppywort Report

Here at Friends we are doubly lucky: we have lovely Native Plants Teaching Gardens, and we have master gardener, designer, educator Kay McConnell, who is responsible for much of their design, plantings and yearly maintenance. See this post for more on the Native Plants Teaching Gardens. But here's our news today: Kay has offered to identify and describe what's blooming now. Here's how it works: I send her a photo of something pretty on campus, and she tells us what it is. So, time for a poppywort report:

Dear Kay, What's this?

Kay says: 

This cheerful wildflower is Stylophorum diphyllum.  The common names are Wood Poppy, Celandine Poppy, and Poppywort.  It loves to grow in moist woodlands and freely seeds where it is happy.  It is planted in front of the Lower School by the bridge. 

Thanks Kay!