...you are a waterleaf!
Even though your leaves have lost the eponymous silvery white ‘water spots’ of early spring you are indeed the common hydrophyllum virginianum.
"If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers."
Therese of Lisieux
These little white (sometimes pink or lavender) flowers, heads dipping in all directions, look like they are mighty excited about something! Curled up in a rosette until now, they are just getting their first look around. From a center cyme the flower clusters unfurl from a coil, their delicate bell-shaped corollas featuring five lobes with five conspicuous protruding hairy stamens terminating in pale yellow tips. Bees love ‘em—so do hummingbirds.
Ordinary and ubiquitous, Virginia waterleaf decks out the woods in prolific colonies that are quite a sight to behold.
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