| Description | A form of the common Wood Violet with speckles of blue/violet in the petals. Many consider this just a variation of Viola soronia. In my garden they grow among the Common Wood Violet. |
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| Pronunciation | (vi-O-la) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Wild Flowers |
| Hardiness Zone | 4 |
| Sunlight | full to shaded depending on the moisture |
| Moisture | average, best in moist |
| Soil & Site | average, best in moist |
| Flowers | white with bluish freckles, one per scape (flower stalk), end of April through May in my gardens |
| Leaves | green, heart shaped, rounded teeth, emerge directly from the plants rhizome |
| Dimensions | 4 inches high, 6 inches or greater in spread |
| Propagation | easy by division, seeds |
| Misc Facts | #100-Wildflowers of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest (Merel Black and Emmet Judziewicz), #153-Illinois Wild Flowers (www.illinoiswildflowers.info), #218-Flora of Wisconsin (wisflora.herbarium.wisc.edu) |
| Author's Notes | I have a patch of this plant growing in the lawn by my vegetable garden. I cut over the plants with the lawn mower blade set at higher than 3". I don't cut when they are blooming. Freckles and the other Viola don't seem to mind this and come back each year. |
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