Data specific to Violas (Edit)
Flowers: Stem

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Partial Shade to Full Shade
Water Preferences: Wet Mesic
Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Plant Height: 4-18 inches
Leaves: Deciduous
Fruit: Other: Three-sided pod with many tiny seeds
Fruiting Time: Late spring or early summer
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Yellow
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Spring
Underground structures: Rhizome
Uses: Groundcover
Will Naturalize
Edible Parts: Leaves
Flowers
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Propagation: Seeds: Stratify seeds: 2 months cold moist treatment
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Other info: Seed will die if it dries out. Keep moist or refrigerate.
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Cuttings: Root
Division
Pollinators: Bees

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Common names
  • Downy yellow violet

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By Photo by and (c)2006 Derek Ramsey (Ram-Man) via Wikimedia Comm
Location: Natural Area in Northeastern Indiana
Date: 2012-03-25
Location: Shenk's Ferry wildflower preserve Conestoga, PA
Date: 2020-04-15
Location: Tennessee
Date: 2003-04-02
Steven J. Baskauf http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/

Date: 2003-04-30
Steven J. Baskauf http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/
Location: Tennessee
Date: 2002-04-23
Steven J. Baskauf http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/

Date: July
credit: John Cameron
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MrsBinWY On March 23, 2021 Seeds sown
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