Violets mean spring, at least for the botanically inclined. Chances are your yard is dotted with jots of purple. The color is courtesy of the common blue violet (Viola sororia). It’s a hardy native, ...

Roses are red. Violets are blue. But sometimes they can be yellow, too. Or even white. Roughly 20 species of violets grow in Illinois, and many have heart-shaped leaves with five petals on blooms ...

The other day, I was photographing a large clump of common blue violets on a neighbor’s lawn when she remarked that they were pretty, but “mostly weeds.” I said I know that violets can be banes of ...

Common blue violets are named that way for a reason. They pop up naturally in gardens all over Missouri and the central and eastern parts of the U.S. “You probably have it in your backyard just like I ...

Even if you’ve never seen violets growing wild, you probably have a mental image of them. Low-growing plants with heart-shaped leaves and pretty dark blue flowers, right? Well, that’s true for a ...

Research was conducted to determine the influence of soil fertilization and mowing on persistence of Indian mockstrawberry and common blue violet in an old, weakened tall fescue lawn. Fertilization ...