Viola walteri Woodlanders Introduction tucked so far back among

tucked so far back among the leaves that a passerby often smells the plant long before finding the flowers

or an open border

this is a stoloniferous deciduous shrub that forms colonies in moist

usually upright hooded cylinders

Viola walteri Woodlanders Introduction tucked so far back amongA native violet grown as much for the leaf as the flower. Viola walteri, Walter's violet, belongs to the violet family, Violaceae, and honors the British born botanist Thomas Walter, whose Flora Caroliniana of 1788 was the first flora of the American Southeast. The prostrate blue violet ranges in the wild from Texas east to Florida and north to Virginia and Ohio, threading the floors of moist deciduous woodlands and shaded rocky ledges. The foliage is