Lucas Land

Sweet White Violet

Viola blanda

From Nearctica

Identification: Leaves basal and flowers located on separate stalks. Flowers white, fragrant, and with upper petals twisted at the apices. Leaves ovate to heart-shaped, basal indentation between leaf blade and leaf stalk narrow and deep.

Distribution: Southeastern Canada, southward to Iowa in the west and Georgia and Alabama and in the east.

Habitat: Sweet White Violet is found in woods.

Flowering period: April to May.