Need help in identification

[bkln]

Need some help in identifying this thing, found it at the local forest green as hell at this time of the year, looks like someone plant it, but what is it?

This ain't clover and alfalfa looks a bit different (more round leafs).... anyone can educate me? Thanks

 

 

[pistolp71]

I have it in my yard. It flowers in the spring and likes shade. Can't remember the name. I think it starts with a P.

[G-Man]

yes its an escaped ground cover from some ones garden or old foundation site

[adkbuck]

I think it is the May Apple.  Grows in hardwood forests through NY and the NE.  See: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mayapple_Podophylum_peltatum_Leaf_2150px.jpg

[pistolp71]

Just remembered the name. Periwinkle.

[bkln]

Thanks guys, I dug deeper and pistol is right... these are Pachysandra terminalis - aka Japanese spurge (the brighter green leaf) and Vinca minor - aka lesser periwinkle or dwarf periwinkle that's the one with darker leaf. It really looked like someone planted it, but that's because they sort of invasive and will grow in the shade creating a gren carpet. I thought I found a deer paradise but they actually deter deer big time. Oh well, my scouting for new areas continue. Thanks Folks.

[pistolp71]

Yup, one of the few things in my yard that the deer don't eat.

[malesi1]

Pachysandra....