Description | White Wood Violet (Viola soronia albiflora) is a white flowering form of the more common Blue Wood Violet. |
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Plant Type | All Plants, Wild Flowers, Site author's observations |
Hardiness Zone | 4 |
Sunlight | partial sun, bright shade, will tolerate some direct morning sun |
Moisture | average, moist |
Soil & Site | average, moist |
Flowers | white |
Fruit | capsule, brown seeds |
Leaves | forms a rosette from the rhizome, heart-shaped, deep green |
Stems | thick, horizontally branched rhizome |
Dimensions | 6 by 4 inches (HS) |
Propagation | division |
Author's Notes | This grows wild in a section of my back lawn by the vegetable garden. When the violets are blooming I don't cut this section of the lawn. |
Notes & Reference | #153-Illinois Wild Flower (www.illinoiswildflowers.info) |