Muscari latifolium is much less often encountered than the common Muscari neglectum. You can recognize latifolium by its broad leaves (thus the name) and the tendency of the flowers to darken as they age, creating an attractive bicolor flower spike.
These gorgeous sky-blue flowers would be garden treasures if they were a little bigger. They are tiny enough that many of us hardly even notice them in our lawns and sidewalk cracks. Veronica persica is a European import, like almost all our lawn weeds.
Lesser Periwinkle, Myrtle, Cemetery Vine—this creeper has many names. It’s one of the first things to bloom in the spring. It can be invasive, but it is a very tidy and polite invader.
