Monday, 11 April 2022

SPRING FLOWERS 4: GROUND IVY

and back to the spring flowers

A more striking purplish blue than the violet but still quite small 
so keep your eyes peeled along the edge of hedgerows.


Ground ivy is no relation of ivy but it does hug the ground.  
It's closer to the mints and dead nettles.  


The leaves are nothing like ivy either 
but slightly tinted purple and  almost round with scalloped edges .


It spreads by its long trailing stems that root as they go.






 

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