Description: Genus of one species of erect perennial originating in the southeastern United States but now grown all over the country. Rosette forming, it features elliptic or lance-shaped basal ...

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) is both an ...

Roses are red, violets are blue, but people want blue roses! In the industry of floriculture, the cut blue flower is a coveted product. So much so, that according to the Institute of of Vegetable and ...

Roses are red. Violets are blue. But sometimes they can be yellow, too. Or even white. Roughly 20 species of violets grow in Illinois, and many have heart-shaped leaves with five petals on blooms ...

Everyone knows how the lyric begins: "Roses are red, violets are blue …" This poetic reference could be directly applied to the western Montana blue violet, which occurs widely in many of our ...

Roses are red, violets are blue…but people want blue roses! In the industry of floriculture, the cut blue flower is a coveted product. So much so, that according to the Institute of of Vegetable and ...