Bluets

(houstonia caerulea, found at wikimedia commons under creative commons)

   If you have ever seen these blue little flowers in the grass and didn't know what they were, well they are called bluets. They grow a few degrees underneath the tender green grass from mid-spring into summer.

    They come back every spring and people mistaken them with forget-me-nots. I certainly have been calling them this for as long as I can remember. They are perennials and belong to the Rubeacae family which consists of many grassflowers and lilies. 
      
      These flowers thrive on acidic soil with other nutrient rich flowers and grasses. Their roots are tender rhizomes that densely sit in with the more tough grasses. They are not woody at all, but it doesn't necessarily make them a bad grower. The flowers were called Quaker ladies, innocence and the ever so popular misconception of "forget-me-nots".  If you see them around, you can press them a pretty book and make a nice notecard or bookmark.