Data specific to Violas (Edit)
Flowers: Stemless
Growth habit: Compact/mounding

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Height: 6-8 inches
Plant Spread: 6-12 inches
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Bi-Color: White with purple or deep blue speckles
Bloom Size: 1"-2"
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
Summer
Late summer or early fall
Uses: Culinary Herb
Dried Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Propagation: Seeds: Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Cuttings: Root
Division
Pollinators: Various insects

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Common names
  • Sister Violet
  • Woolly Blue Violet
  • Confederate Violet

Photo Gallery
Location: Pennsylvania
Date: 2020-05-03
Viola sororia 'Freckles'
Location: Nora's Garden - Castlegar, B.C.
Date: 2017-05-11
- A lovely group of freckled Violas.
Location: Edrom nursery, Scotland
Date: 2008-05-02
Location: Nora's Garden - Castlegar, B.C.
Date: 2016-05-01
- There is a "woolly" fringe on the underside of the leaf stem ab
Location: Salem, OR
Date: 2013-04-14
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Date: 2023-05-07
Woolly Blue Violet (Viola sororia 'Freckles').

Courtesy Outsidepride
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Date: April
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Date: 2023-05-04
Woolly Blue Violet (Viola sororia 'Freckles') is very hardy but o
Location: My Garden, Ontario, Canada
Date: 2016-05-25
Location: My Garden, Ontario, Canada
Date: 2016-05-23
A lovely little violet that grows under my roses.
Location: Madison, Wisconsin.
Date: April
photo by James Steakley
Location: My garden in Kalama, Wa. Zone 8
Date: 2014-03-20
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Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Lucketts, Loudoun County, Virginia
Date: 2013-04-19

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  • Uploaded by vic
Location: Kalama, Wa
Date: 2010-05-01
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Kalama, Wa
Date: 2010-05-01
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Salem, OR
Date: 2013-04-14
Uploaded by Windigo
Location: Lucketts, Loudoun County, Virginia
Date: 2013-04-19
Location: Kalama, Wa
Date: 2010-05-01
  • Uploaded by Joy

Date: 2015-06-16
Credit Meneerke bloem
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