Ground Ivy

Continuing my theme of under-appreciated plants...here is Ground Ivy, Glechoma hederacea. It is a very common plant in woods, hedge banks and rough ground, so common that we tend to overlook it. Many insects appreciate it as it provides a very useful source of nectar early in the spring - to those species that can reach into that long trumpet flower, anyway. As with many other plants, if you get down to its level and isolate it from all the messy vegetation that normally accompanies it...it is striking, both in structure and colour.