Violets and giant chickweed

Spring wildflower season is progressing nicely.

These violets and giant chickweed (a native: Stellaria pubera) made a wonderful combination, here in a photo sent from my gardening companion's iPhone late this afternoon.

Giant chickweed and long-spurred violet

He was in the mountains near Bryson City, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smokies (the Southern Appalachians.)