Shade Gardening: woodland wildflowers, 1 by sempervirens

sempervirens wrote:
Weerobin,
There are a number of cut leaf violas. I have bird foot violet with a similar leaf and there is a rare. highly coveted white form of that. Does it have a sweet fragrance? If so it could be viola dissecta a non native violet. You might try the viola forum on DG and see if you can get it ID.
You definitely also have the squirrel corn leaves coming up in the front of the violet.

The photo is of my birds foot violet leaves, no flowers yet but they're purple. This one likes full sun and sandy acid soil.