Common Name: Common Blue Violet

Latin Name: Viola sororia

Height: 4 inches

Duration: Perennial

Bloom Color: Purple

Bloom Time: April - June

Water Use: Medium-Wet, Medium, Medium-Dry

Soil: Loam, Clay

Light Requirement: Full, Partial, Shade

Spreads via: Seed; rhizomes

Host Plant:  Several types of Fritillary Butterfly and a few moth larvae

Pollinators:  The flowers are not often visited by insects (hence the need for cleistogamous flowers-see below), but sometimes they attract bees, skippers, other insects.

Other Information: During the summer, cleistogamous flowers without petals produce seeds, which are flung outward by mechanical ejection from the three-parted seed capsules.