Viola sororia-Common meadow violet

Description

For such a little plant it sure has lots of common names; common blue violet, meadow violet, purple violet, woolly blue violet, woods violet. (This is a great example of why common names can be misleading to the exact species we are referring to.) Blooms from spring to early summer, you’ve probably noticed these guys while taking early spring walks in the woods. They grow happily in lots of different places; in the woods, in lawns, roadside clearings, fields, forest borders, thickets, and stream banks. Common across New England. Most violets have two different flower types, spring time chasmogamous flowers and late summer time cleistogamous flowers. Chasmogamous (open marriage) flowers are “normal flowers”, if you will. They open up and are fertilized by pollinators. Cleistogamous (closed marriage) flowers remain shut and are self fertilized, these are often born underground.

Violets are the host plants for our magnificent fritillary butterflies, and the food source for the mining bee, a pollinator specialist feeding exclusively on violets.

2gal size, $16.00 (Seed grown, MOFGA certified organic.)