Friday Action Card - Periwinkle

March 20, 2026 (Southern Botanic Oracle)

Periwinkle is a quiet plant. It grows low to the ground, spreads slowly in the shade, and doesn’t ask for much attention. But scholars are now following it like a map because enslaved African-Americans planted it at gravesites when no marker was possible. A small purple flower holding the location of the beloved dead for hundreds of years. That is fero…