Purple Violet Live Plant (Viola sororia)

Common Name: Violet

Scientific name: Viola sororia

Native to: Eastern North America, including Maryland

Native Violet for Woodland and Groundcover Plantings

Common Blue Violet (Viola sororia) is a low-growing native perennial with purple-blue spring flowers. It can spread to form colonies in suitable sites and works well beneath deciduous trees, along woodland edges, and in other part-shade plantings.

The flowers may be visited by early-season pollinators, and Viola sororia serves as a host plant for fritillary butterfly caterpillars.

Growing Conditions

• Light: Part sun to shade
• Hardiness Zones: 3–8
• Habit: Low-growing, colony-forming perennial
• Bloom: Spring
• Moisture: Average; adaptable once established

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