Common Blue Violet

(Viola sororia)

Characteristics

Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habit: Colony-forming perennial herb

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from branching rhizomes

Leaf anatomy: Leaves from crowns at stem base, ovate to orbicular (sometimes reniform in summer), heart shaped, obtuse or short-tipped, crenate, cordate at base, petioles twice as long as leaves

Reproduction: Flowers typically purple or blue but range from white to dark blue/violet, five petals

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}