Tagged: Bird’s Foot Violet

Ozarks Spring Wildflowers: Bird’s Foot Violet

Birds's Foot Violet, Viola pedataThese are really a nice flower. They’re tough as nails and grow on the scruffy edges of roads and on glades where it’s dry. The foliage is subtle and lies below the large blue flat-faced flowers held on single stems coming from the center of the plant. The flowers are larger than you would expect from the foliage. The leaves, by the way, are where this plant gets its common name, Bird’s Foot Violet. Because the leaves are forked like a bird’s foot.

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