Viola

Viola, Heartsease, Viola tricolor hortensis, Annual Violet
From tiny ¾-inch Johnny-jump-ups to giant pansy strains with flowers 5 inches across, Violas are beloved garden flowers.

Viola cucularia 'Purple Showers'
Marsh Blue Violet
The "energizer bunny" of Violas. Purple Showers is a clump-forming selection with large, 2 inch long, slightly fragrant flowers that are bright clear purple.

Viola
By Lou Paun
There are over 500 species of the genus Viola, commonly called violets. They are found scattered across the world, but most are in the temperate areas of the northern hemisphere.

Violas
Sweet-faced violas are a staple of the fall and winter garden. Even when the weather is gray, they provide cheerful â€- and reliable â€- color.
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Viola acuminata
15 (20)cm, a rarely cultivated perennial species with showy white, sky blue or bicolored flowers above broadly arrow shaped light green leaves.

Viola hastata is a fascinating plant. Even if it never flowered it would be well worth growing for its silvery marbled foliage. The specific epithet hastata , refers to the almost arrow shape of the leaves.

Viola wittrockiana
( Baby Lucia Pansy )
'Baby Lucia' bears somewhat smaller flowers with a blue backround and yellow markings from spring through summer. The Allegro Series cultivars produce large flowers in a variety of colors and markings.

Viola, Tufted Pansy
Scientific Name: Viola cornuta Linn.
Synonym:
Family: Violaceae ...

Violaceae Form #3 Passion Flower
Passiflora violaceae form #3
3-4" blooms are a purplish-red with a corona of white filaments. This is a somewhat tamer passion flower, yet it blooms continuously throughout summer. An very striking and unusual color.

Violaceae
Plants of the Violet Family
Violets have a distinctive, slightly irregular flower. The pansy and Johnny-jump-ups are members of the Viola genus; if you have seen them, then you will recognize other flowers of this group.

Viola, from the Latin for violet
renifolia, from the Latin ren, "kidney", and folius, "leaf"; hence "kidney shaped leaf"
Common Name, from shape of the leaf
Other common names include Kidney-leaved Violet, Kidney-leaved White Violet ...

Although these violas are perennial, they are often treated as annuals and biennials.
Photographed in author's garden.

Viola tricolor is pretty in containers, as edging, or as a companion for bulbs. It self-seeds readily.
Noteworthy characteristics: Native to Europe and Asia. Heart-shaped leaves. Familiar, pansy "faces" with darker "whiskers." ...

Viola pedata
Violets, Viola pedata, may be directly sown into the garden at anytime from spring through fall. If they are started indoors they need darkness for germination (cover the flat with black poly).

Viola cornuta (horned pansy)
A popular bedding plant with a light fragrance, horned pansy is native to the Pyrenees.
Viola cornuta (horned pansy) photographed near the Lac de Fabrège, Artouste (Pyrenees) (Image: Sven Landrein) ...

Viola adunca (Violet)
Violaceae (Violet Family)
Montane, subalpine, alpine. Woodlands, meadows. Spring, summer.
Lower Stoner Mesa Trail, May 26, 2004.

Viola 'Prairie Violet'
Botanical names: V. pedatifida 'Prairie Violet'.
Common names: Larkspur violet, Purple prairie violet.

Viola cornuta / Tufted or Horned Violets - Spreading perennials with a rosette of leaves topped by 1 ½ inch flowers in a variety of colors with rays or lines in a deeper or contrasting shade. V. cornuta may even has a slight scent.

Voila - Viola !!!
Violas, together with their cousins, violets and pansies, are members of the Violaceae family.

Pansy - Viola wittrockiana hybrids (v. tricolor hortensis)
Pansies are the cultivated form of the native viola. There are many strains of pansies and violas available.

Violas are grown from seeds. They like full to partial sun. Viola can be directly seeded into your flower garden or seeded indoors for transplanting later.

Viola cornuta is called the Tufted Violet, Horned Violet, or Bedding Pansy. We have the cultivar "Rebecca," which has creamy pale blossoms edged in deep shades of purple, over oval dark leaves that stand four to eight inches tall.

Viola odorata L.
Common Names
common violet, English violet, florist's violet, fragrant violet, garden violet, sweet blue violet, sweet violet, violet ...

#521 Viola x Wittrockiana
Common Names: pansy, ladies-delight
Family: Violaceae (violet Family)
Wallpaper Gallery (16 images) ...

Opuntia violaceae santa rita
Santa Rita prickly pear
Cactaceae Family
Compiled by the Master Gardeners
of the University of Arizona Pima County Cooperative Extension.

Family: Violaceae, Violet
Genus: Viola
Description
General: perennial with short, thick rootstocks and often
with slender stolons. Stems 10-40 cm tall, hairless to
short-hairy.
Leaves: basal and alternate, the stalks as much as 30 ...

Petunia x violacea
'Laura Bush'
Laura Bush Petunia
Description
Petunia x violacea 'Laura Bush' is named after our 43rd President George W. Bush's wife Laura. This variety is a cross between the V.I.P. Petunia and the Old Fashioned Petunia.

Tulbaghia violacea 'Silver Lace'
Alliaceae (=Umbelliferae)
Tulbaghia violacea 'Silver Lace', or Variegated Society Garlic, is a perennial plant with narrow, up to 12 inch (30 cm) long leaves.

Pansies: Viola Wittrockiana, 'Karma™ Light Blue'
Botanical name: Viola Wittrockiana, 'Karma™ Light Blue'
Common name: Pansy, Karma™ Light Blue
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Hardenbergia violacea Meema ['HB1'] PPAF (Meema Purple Vine Lilac) - An evergreen groundcover that scrambles to form a dense groundcover 1 to 2 feet tall by 6 feet wide with simple rounded 3 inch long linear leaves and sprays of pinkish purple ...

Viola conspersa
Note the spur on the bottom petal, which curls up behind the flower. Dog violet can be distinguished from other purple violets by the long spur and by the "beard" of white hairs on the two side petals.

Botanical Name: Viola x wittrockiana
Velvety flowers in a rich range of colors have made pansy plants long-time favorites.

See: Violets, Viola
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Clematis 'Venosa Violacea'
Genus: Clematis
Cultivar: 'Venosa Violacea'
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Acanthocalycium violaceum
(Acanthocalycium)
Basic Info
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Viola sororia -- I'm out on a limb here with the Identification, because while I'm sure it's a violet, there are over 75 species in North America alone, with very fine distinctions...

Viola species
Plants of Home and Garden, Herbs
Seeds sown lightly covered spring, as soon as soil can be worked, or in fall; some species require stratification or fall-sowing. Dark required for germination, which is often irregular.

Viola cunninghamii is a small tufted herbaceous plant, reaching 4-8 in (10-20 cm) high. The leaves are triangular to oval. The flowers are white, greenish or yellowish at the throat, with a number of purple lines on the petals.

Viola. Introduced.
V. odorata. Garden, florist's or English, or sweet violet. Leaves and flowers of all violas are edible.
V. tricolor, or heartsease.

VIOLACEA WHITE FIR
Abies concolor 'violacea'
General Notes
Has Fragrant Bark and Leaf. SelecTree lists 1 cultivar of concolor: 'violacea'
An Abies concolor in Yosemite National Park is registered as a California Big Tree.

'Violacea' - Beautiful form with intense silvery-blue needles. Often grafted on species understock.

GRAVIOLA capsules (annona muricata)
LAOS capsules (alpinia galanga)
SPICES
TINCTURES / INFUSIONS ...

Viola, commonly called Violets, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Violaceae, with around 400-500 species distributed around the world.

Viola tricolor (L)
Synonyms and Common names: Wild pansy, love-lies-bleeding, love in idleness, live in idleness, Herb Constancy, bullweed, bird's eye, herb trinity , Johnny jumper, stepmother ...

Viola pedata : Birdsfoot Violet - Whole Plant
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Violas plant themselves all over the garden. Those that do not have to share light with other plants, grow compact and low. Those planting themselves in among taller neighbors grow higher and higher.

Viola Maggie Mott' Sweet perfume. Early Summer. Take cuttings to replace old plants. Ht. 6ins 15cm.
Climbers
Wisteria Sinensis Flowers in early summer. Sunny wall ...

Viola, Viola cornuta, V. tricolor
Wallflower, Cheiranthus cheiri
White shooting stars, Nicotiana sylvestris ...

Viola spp. - American violet
Vitis aestivalis spp. - summer grape
Vitis rotundifolia spp. - muscadine grape ...

VIOLA DISEASES
Waldsteinia ternata
Weigela florida--Rose Weigela, Old Fashioned Weigela ...

Violaceae may be recognised by their serrate, stipulate leaves which often dry yellowish and with raised reticulum, their flowers, ...

Ipomoea violacea
Convolvulus tuba, Ipomoea macrantha, Ipomoea tuba
Convolvulaceae ...

Allamanda violacea Cream
Family: Apocynaceae
Allamanda
Origin: Tropical America ...

Xanthosoma violaceum Schott (X. nigrum (Vell.) F. Knoll) Common name(s): Yautia ...

Pansies and violas may be attacked by various leaf spot diseases that disfigure the plants. Plants in containers and those in the ground can be equally affected.
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What are pansy leaf spots?
Symptoms
Control
Biology ...

How to Grow Viola Tricolor Johnny Jump-ups
Cool season flowers, these miniature pansy like blooms are a perennial favorite in cottage gardens world wide. See tips for how to grow Heartsease in the landscape.
How to Grow Perennial Iris Plants ...

(Viola tricolor LINN.)
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---Description---The Heartsease is as variable as any of the other members of the genus, but whatever modifications of form it may present, ...

XANTHOSOMA VIOLACEUM - Blue Taro
XEROPHYTES
Further Thoughts on Adjusting to our Drier Climate. By E. Hager, R. Watts and A. Ramirez. 1989 #4, pp 14-21
XIMENIA AMERICANA - Tallow Wood, Seaside Plum ...

These pansy, viola, and dianthus varieties flowered right through the grayest winter days: 'Clear Sky Primrose', 'Baby Bingo Denim', and 'Wink Red and Yellow', pansies; 'Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow' and Sorbet and Velour series violas; ...

Genus species: Viola cornuta
Common name: Viola
Unique qualities: Spreading, mounding habit fills planters and garden beds quickly for maximum pot and landscape colour impact.

See also: Violet, May, Green, Pink, Rose