The common blue violet (Viola sororia), also known as common meadow violet, purple violet, woolly blue violet, or wood violet, is a native perennial plant found throughout eastern North America. Some ...

Violets mean spring, at least for the botanically inclined. Chances are your yard is dotted with jots of purple. The color is courtesy of the common blue violet (Viola sororia). It’s a hardy native, ...

Common blue violets are named that way for a reason. They pop up naturally in gardens all over Missouri and the central and eastern parts of the U.S. “You probably have it in your backyard just like I ...

Roses are red. Violets are blue. But sometimes they can be yellow, too. Or even white. Roughly 20 species of violets grow in Illinois, and many have heart-shaped leaves with five petals on blooms ...

The other day, I was photographing a large clump of common blue violets on a neighbor’s lawn when she remarked that they were pretty, but “mostly weeds.” I said I know that violets can be banes of ...

If you think ants in the kitchen and violets in the yard are not a good thing, you are right on one. Ants are unwelcomed parades across a kitchen counter or floor. Violets, however, are bright spots ...

So far this year I have professed my reverie of dandelions, shrugged off creeping Charlie, and now it has come time to confess my favorite  weed' -- the common blue violet (Viola soraria). Yes, it is ...