Editor's note: Once a month, the OSU Extension master gardener's office of Franklin County profiles a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. The common blue violet (Viola sororia ...

This Ohio River county is home to an amazing ... Adding to the colorful palette were scores of common blue violets. Next stop was the Arc’s Chalet Nivale Preserve. “Nivale” refers to the ...

Walking Wright Woods the other day while admiring trout lilies, spring beauties and hepaticas, I noted some common violets, the blue ones. These are often called dooryard violets and the Latin ...

1. Virginia bluebells. 2. Prairie trillium. 3. Creeping Charlie. 4. White trout lily. 5. Spring beauties. 6. Cutleaf toothwort. 7. Common blue violet. 8. Bristly ...

I can’t hate the wild violets that spill across my lawn, inextricably linked as they are to the memory of my mother bent low under a spreading maple, her apron skirt swirled around her as she ...

Small violets herald the arrival of spring throughout Virginia. There are more than 70 species of the native purple, blue, yellow or white flowers in North America. But there is more to violets ...