Ground Ivy

(Glechoma hederacea)

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habits: Creeping perennial herb

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from taproot, stems, stolons, and rhizomes

Leaf anatomy: Oppositely arranged, round to cordate or reniform, pubescent, margins crenate & ciliate, green or purplish green on one or both sides

Reproduction: Terminal or axillary cyme, clusters of 2-7 flowers; corolla blue-violet, sometimes with red-purple specks, bilateral symmetry, lobes sharp-pointed and triangular

_{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}