Viola walteri Woodlanders Introduction usually upright hooded cylinders

usually upright hooded cylinders

tucked so far back among the leaves that a passerby often smells the plant long before finding the flowers

Growing four to six feet tall and wide

Dirr rated this group among the most sun and heat tolerant of all the sweetshrubs he trialed

this is a stoloniferous deciduous shrub that forms colonies in moist

Viola walteri Woodlanders Introduction usually upright hooded cylindersA native violet grown as much for the leaf as the flower. Viola walteri, Walter's violet, belongs to the violet family, Violaceae, and honors the British born botanist Thomas Walter, whose Flora Caroliniana of 1788 was the first flora of the American Southeast. The prostrate blue violet ranges in the wild from Texas east to Florida and north to Virginia and Ohio, threading the floors of moist deciduous woodlands and shaded rocky ledges. The foliage is