Another of the first few wildflowers: Viola adunca Early Blue Violet.
It's very common here, quite adaptable but generally in woodland edge/clearings, but I had to hunt around in a number of prominent colonies to find some plants flowering- on the sunny south edge of mixed woods, in quite a sheltered area. They will open many many more flowers over weeks and the plants will get quite a bit larger
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2- this view shows how tricky it is to see the plants at this time of year-- each arrow shows a plant, and no guarantee I got all of them!
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