cohan
Another of the first few wildflowers: Viola adunca Early Blue Violet.
It's very common here, quite adaptable but generally in woodland edge/clearings, but I had to hunt around in a number of prominent colonies to find some plants flowering- on the sunny south edge of mixed woods, in quite a sheltered area. They will open many many more flowers over weeks and the plants will get quite a bit larger
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May 11 at 1:44amWeb
Show threadcohanMay 11
2- this view shows how tricky it is to see the plants at this time of year-- each arrow shows a plant, and no guarantee I got all of them!
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Show threadJeanMay 25
@cohanf Reminds me a little of Australian violets I plant for Andy. He likes the flowers. It runs under loose soil or mulch. The ones I plant are not fond of the summer dry heat and need lots of mulch and water to thrive through the heat. Are the leaves of the ones on your photo as fleshy as they look? Reminds me a little of begonia leaves.
Show threadcohanMay 25
@jeannotpepino Not really fleshy- at the time of this photo, the leaves were just emerging, so looking a bit thicker maybe. Probably more so a bit leathery and thinner looking as they extend fully. There are now many hundreds of them around the yard (they are native/wild locally).
Show threadJeanMay 25
@cohanf I’m not familiar with violets but there was a strange resemblance to the Australian which are the only kind I’m ever able to find. The ones here aren’t fleshy either. I’ll have to take a photo. Mine are very small. Flowers are the size of a 10¢ coin.
Show threadcohanMay 25
@jeannotpepino These-- especially when they first emerge, are probably even smaller than that - the whole plant is only a couple of inches high. As they grow more fully, they might reach 6 inches high and as wide or a little more. We have another early one, with white flowers, even a bit tinier at first, then a bit later a larger white, with plants maybe a foot tall, and another purple just a little bigger than the early purple.
Show threadcohanMay 25
@jeannotpepino In the case of pansies and garden violas, the flowers have become larger and flatter, but otherwise so many violets from around the world have very similar looking flowers, though the foliage can vary a lot-- do a quick search of Rosulate Violets in South America-- still violet flowers, but those leaves!!