Viola named Columbine #1
by J McCombie
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Viola named Columbine #1
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J McCombie
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This pretty little violet will delight gardeners with many months of fragrant blossoms beginning in late spring, then continuing through summer and into fall if deadheaded occasionally. The flowers are white but heavily marbled and streaked with soft lilac, lavender and violet-blue tones throughout. They are presented atop compact mounds of foliage, standing 6-10 inches tall.
This hybrid of horned violet (Viola cornuta) is a small short-lived herbaceous perennial sometimes used as an annual. The yellow-eyed flowers are singly borne on short stems above clumps of semi-evergreen oval leaves. They have five petals: two paired and upright, two paired and horizontal, and one broad and down-pointing.
Viola is a genus of flowering plants in the violet family Violaceae. It is the largest genus in the family, containing between 525 and 600 species. Most species are found in the temperate Northern Hemisphere; however, some are also found in widely divergent areas such as Hawaii, Australasia, and the Andes. Some Viola species are perennial plants, some are annual plants, and a few are small shrubs. A large number of species, varieties and cultivars are grown in gardens for their ornamental flowers. In horticulture the term "pansy" is normally used for those multi-coloured, large-flowered cultivars which are raised annually or biennially from seed and used extensively in bedding. The terms "viola" and "violet" are normally reserved for small-flowered annuals or perennials, including the species.
Viola typically have heart-shaped, scalloped leaves, though a number have palmate leaves or other shapes. The vast majority of Viola species are herbaceous, and a substantial number are acaulescent in habit - meaning they lack any noticeable stems and the foliage and flowers appear to rise from the ground; the remaining species have short stems with foliage and flowers produced in the axils of the leaves. The simple leaves of plants with either habit are arranged alternately; the acaulescent species produce basal rosettes. Plants always have leaves with stipules that are often leaf-like.
Viola cornuta, known as horned pansy or horned violet, is a low-growing, clump-forming temperate evergreen perennial in the genus Viola (violet), native to the Pyrenees and the Cordillera Cantica of northern Spain at altitude of 1,0002,300 metres (3,3007,500 ft). It grows to 50 cm in height and spread. It has mid-green ovate leaves with rounded teeth, and masses of delicate pale violet flowers in early summer. The flower consists of five strap-shaped petals with a slender spur. This plant, and its white cultivar, 'Alba group', have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
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