Which plants and/or fungi do you look out for in March? My favourite spring flower the bluebell doesn't usually come out until early-mid April, but you never know as we've been having quite a strange year with regards to weather. When bluebells carpet the woodland floor you know summer isn't too far away.
Primroses start to make an appearance in March too I believe?
I think for me the flower I look for in March is the lesser celandine, which is just getting to its best here in the East Midlands, when I see churchyards etc. covered with its yellow flowers I know that the warm days are not far away.
Everything gradually builds to herald the spring and each with each plant that I see, the more grateful I am for our seasonal climate.
Daisies (lots out now) and Dandelions in significant numbers always bring a smile to my face but it is the woodland flowers, trying to get things over before they get shaded out by the canopy that I look out for. Everything is just coming into flower now down here - wood anenomes and primroses first but it won't be long for bluebells now.
Not native but I also saw a grape hyacinth in flower today.
Fungi can be a bit unpredictable and fruit out of season.
I saw a Paneolus mushroom today which is quite unusual in that it grows on dung - pony dung in this instance! Lots of the slower growing brackets are visible all year round of course.
Here where I live the Skunk Cabbage is the sign of spring! I have smelled, but not yet seen any...
Kingfisher
Colt's Foot & Butterbur are another 2 which mark the signs of better things are just around the corner.
Daffodils always used to be a very March flower, and there are still some out in the garden now.