This is:
A potpourri (below) of violet/pansy/Viola species
information as a supplement to other articles.
A plant-based page rather than our usual topic-based page. It's
a pivot point, one list of links to ours and
others' articles that involve Viola species.
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Viola x wittrockiana are the hybrid pansies of every
color and color combination imaginable, sometimes with flowers so
large that an individual bloom can almost cover an entire clump of
one cousin involved in the crosses, the sweet little heartsease or
Johnny Jump-up (Viola tricolor).
Below, left: One of the smaller varieties of hardy pansy.
Plant them in fall, see them blooming as soon as the first bulb
foliage appears, and then remove them when summer heat begins, for
"annual" treatment. Leave them to perennialize in a cool spot and
the original plant will live a year or two, as well as produce seed
that may supply blooming volunteers for a decade.
Above, right: There are so many woodland violets you could
dedicate a whole section of a shady garden to them. This is the
downy violet, Viola pubescens. Its purple-flowered cousin,
the meadow violet (V. cucullata), is similar in appearance
but more likely than the downy violet to be able to naturalize as a
weed of the lawn.
Read more about violets and
pansies (Viola species):
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Care:
violets as lawn weeds: