Viola hederacea Highlight though the tree will take

though the tree will take average garden ground once established

Photo courtesy of Karl Gercens III

a Philadelphia botanist whose name lives on in this small clan of southeastern mints

Ernest Wilson came across this shrub in the late summer of 1901

Viola hederacea Highlight though the tree will takeSometimes known as Erpetion reniforme, this is a pretty little trailing plant with small kidney shaped leaves and numerous little half white, half lilac blue flowers on erect two to three inch stems. It grows well in shady or semi shady moist soil and could be used to cascade down a slope or wall. It is hardy in the warmer zones and a greenhouse plant in the North.