Viola odorata (blue)
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Viola odorata (blue)• Click here to visit our Main Plant List page for current availability of this plant
• common name: viola
• flowering season: early spring, fall
• height: 4 inches
• Light requirements: partial shade
• Soil requirements: average soil that is well drained
• Water requirments: moisture in spring, less moisture during summer
• Growth habit: low and creeping
• How to propagate: from seeds or by separating a side-shoot
• Leaf type: green and heart shaped
• Ways to use it: in a woodland garden, on the shady side of a house, or potted
• Special characteristics: it blooms for a very long time in the garden
• Other points of interests: sweetly scented flowers
The small flowers are a rich blue. This viola will spread wider in two ways, both by seeding itself about and also from runners that it sends out four to eight inches. It does not grow tall, reaching a short height of 2 - 4 inches. For any semi-shady spot, here is undemanding and easy to grow plant. We have seen it naturalize in a shady lawn where it pops up in a wider and wider area over the years.