The tiny, delicate flowers of Virginia Springbeauty (Claytonia virginica), a wildflower that grows in forests and along forest edges in the eastern half of the US and Canada. It also occurs in the mountains south to Georgia, Alabama, and Arkansas and is one of the earliest plants to flower in the spring. The plant's scientific name is a reference to John Clayton, an 18th century botanist and one of the earliest plant collectors of plant specimens in what later became the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Virginia Springbeauty (Claytonia virginica)
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Claytonia virginica is also known as the Soring Beauty.