Didn’t Wena call them bluets? We’ll have blankets of these soon, mostly in shady places on the lawn, but this is the first patch so far. Sometimes in the past I’ve been moved to mow around them. These are under the swing, where there’s not much grass left to mow anyway. Who knows what their real name is?
Sandy knows them as bluets also. Ruth shared this link from an Illinois Wildflowers website:
Quaker Ladies :O)
http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/prairie/plantx/quaker_ladies.htm
Quaker Ladies (Houstonia caerulea)
Description: This small perennial wildflower is about 3-6″ tall, consisting of a rosette of basal leaves and one or more flowering stems with opposite leaves. The basal leaves are about ½” long, medium green, elliptic or oblanceolate in shape, glabrous, and smooth along their mar…