Common Name: Gill-Over-the Ground, Ground Ivy

Scientific Name: Glechoma hederacea

Family: Hederaceae

Mills River, North Carolina

April 27, 2002

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A creeping, ivy-like plant with scalloped roundish or kidney-shaped leaves; often purplish.  Flowers violet, in whorls in leaf axils.  April - July  [Peterson, Roger Tory and McKenny, Margaret, Peterson Field Guides: A Field Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and Northcentral North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1968]

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