Houstonia caerulaea, Common Bluets, Howard County, Md, _2018-05-17-17.13.11 ZS
Bluets, or Quaker Ladies. Their delicate loveliness does not quite shouw up in these pictures...forming little clumps in poor soils and a part of spring I wait for each year. Specimen and photos from Helen Low Metzman.
Beauty is nature's fact.
- Emily Dickinson. Original public domain image from Flickr