Hookedspur Violet, Early Blue Violet ~ Viola adunca
Goosefoot Violet ~ Viola purpurea
May 4, 2018
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How strange that the species name purpurea corresponds to a plant with yellow flowers.
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Comment by Steve Schwartzman — May 4, 2018 @ 10:18 pm
Naming these has all of the characteristics of an action by a committee.
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Comment by montucky — May 4, 2018 @ 10:25 pm
In this case, it seems everyone on the committee must have been color-blind.
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Comment by Steve Schwartzman — May 7, 2018 @ 6:03 am
Sure seems so!
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Comment by montucky — May 7, 2018 @ 8:28 am
Lovely! They remind me of the Johnny Jump Ups that used to come up every year in my garden.
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Comment by Candice — May 4, 2018 @ 10:32 pm
They must be related. I still have some of them in one flower bed.
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Comment by montucky — May 4, 2018 @ 10:38 pm
The veins in the petals really add an interesting design.
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Comment by wordsfromanneli — May 4, 2018 @ 10:36 pm
I presume those are runway markings. Must work because these are very successful species.
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Comment by montucky — May 4, 2018 @ 10:40 pm
Well put.
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Comment by wordsfromanneli — May 4, 2018 @ 11:56 pm
Lovely shots of a flowers that most of us just walk right by!
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Comment by centralohionature — May 5, 2018 @ 3:36 am
I’m happy to find them! The white and yellow took a little work: they were growing in a small bog supplied by a spring. Beautiful little place but the water was cold!
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Comment by montucky — May 5, 2018 @ 8:03 am
I applaud your willingness to undertake identifying them. Violets aren’t the easiest as I’m sure you know.
I wish we had the yellow ones here. I never see them.
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Comment by New Hampshire Garden Solutions — May 5, 2018 @ 3:06 pm
I’m never entirely sure about the ID’s on these, but there is pretty good information on plants in this area from the Burke Museum at the University of Washington. They focus on the Pacific Northwest and a little further inland.
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Comment by montucky — May 5, 2018 @ 3:23 pm
Your yellow and white violets remind me of our white and yellow bluebonnets! Sometimes, things just don’t make sense. I did read somewhere that the name of the color was taken from the flower, rather than the other way around. It’s confusing, so I’ll just admire the flowers. It does appear that the “runway markings” on them all are purple, though. That’s pretty interesting, too. They are lovely. We used to fill our little May baskets with them when I was a kid.
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Comment by shoreacres — May 5, 2018 @ 10:33 pm
It’s strange, but I don’t remember picking violets for those May baskets. They were mostly Shooting Stars and Yellow Bells, and then later we would pick Bitterroots.
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Comment by montucky — May 6, 2018 @ 7:35 am
How wonderful to find the new life of these three violets all where the huge forest fire occurred last year!!
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Comment by bayphotosbydonna — May 6, 2018 @ 7:42 am
In all fires like that there are places within their perimeter that are relatively untouched, areas where the fire was so intense it sterilized the ground, and every condition in between.These are in an large clearing where the intensity of the fire just skipped overhead during one of it’s runs where it travelled about ten miles in that one day, pushed by the wind.
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Comment by montucky — May 6, 2018 @ 8:01 am
Wow, all in one day!
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Comment by heartandsoul974 — May 6, 2018 @ 10:19 am
Rather unusual. I remember years when all summer went by before I found all three colors.
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Comment by montucky — May 6, 2018 @ 5:19 pm
Maybe it’s going to be a special summer for you!
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Comment by heartandsoul974 — May 7, 2018 @ 3:11 pm
Hard to say. The weather is still changing so dramatically.
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Comment by montucky — May 7, 2018 @ 7:11 pm
How pretty they are too.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a yellow violet. I’ve only seen purple and white varieties. I love the smell but they wilt quickly so I’m not sure why they sell bunches in florist shops. Perhaps they’re used like in medieval England to express love and affection to the recipient.
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Comment by Vicki — May 7, 2018 @ 6:57 pm
Yes, they are pretty fragile little flowers. The white and yellow ones were growing right in the water of a spring.
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Comment by montucky — May 7, 2018 @ 7:12 pm
Excellent Violets presentation.
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Comment by Sartenada — May 8, 2018 @ 12:43 am
Thanks! They are very special here.
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Comment by montucky — May 8, 2018 @ 8:43 am
Ah violas .. such lovely sweet flowers. And growing where those fires were ..
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Comment by Julie@frogpondfarm — May 8, 2018 @ 3:01 am
Fortunately they were in their dormant stage when the fire went through and have come up now in areas where the fire was not intense enough to sterilize the soil. In general the flowers are doing quite well is such areas, but in much of the center part of this fire it was so intense that nothing survived: plants will have to return from new seeding, mostly by the birds I think.
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Comment by montucky — May 8, 2018 @ 8:46 am
I love violets! The purple ones are my favorite though and I have a collection of tea cups, saucers, and teapots with those dainty little wildflowers on them.
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Comment by Mama's Empty Nest — May 9, 2018 @ 6:21 am
The purple ones are my favorites, although I’m happy to see the others too.
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Comment by montucky — May 9, 2018 @ 7:24 am
I was going to say that they really don’t look very similar to each other. It looks like even their leaves don’t look much alike so why all violets, indeed?
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Comment by Candace — May 9, 2018 @ 9:17 pm
I understand little about the classification of flowers, but these are all part of the violet family.
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Comment by montucky — May 9, 2018 @ 9:39 pm