Tired of weedy, bare patches in the shady corners of your garden? Shade-loving ground cover plants are the secret to ...

The common blue violet grows about 3- to 8-inches tall, producing 1-inch flowers that are white in the center with 5 distinct deeply blue-purple or white petals. Heart-shaped leaves with ...

while other plants have rough hairy leaves.” Enroth says if you are sure what you have in your yard are common blue violets, and you don’t use pesticides, you might consider adding the flowers ...

Low-growing plants with heart-shaped leaves and pretty dark blue flowers, right? Well, that’s true for a particular species — the common blue violet, or “dooryard violet,” the “sister ...

The common blue is stemless. I love them all and often ... purple flowers with prominent orange stamens make it stand out among other violets. Its leaves resemble a bird’s foot.

Caterpillars hatch in the fall and sleep until spring, when they awaken and eat the leaves of violets. Valuable pollinators such as honey bees, bumble bees, mason bees and blue orchard bees ...

“Violets are host plants for fritillary butterflies. They lay their eggs on the leaves, which are food source for their larvae, the caterpillars.” Common blue violet, or Viola ...