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Viola sororia 'Freckles' - COMMON VIOLET 'FRECKLES'
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VIO-SOR-FRE
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Cultivar with white flowers and china blue freckles.
Blooming Time: April, with ocassional rebloom in late summer
Size: 4-6" tall x 6" wide, forms small clumps/rosettes of partially evergreen leaves, flowers are big, about 1" wide.
USDA Zones:
Culture: average soils, with moderate moisture, sun, half shade,up to dappled light shade, adaptable to many soil types, including clay. Tolerates droughts too, but may turn dormant
Moisture Needs: average (medium), medium-moist, medium-dry
Origin: Garden origin seed strain cultivar (variable). It is native to whole eastern part of USA, see the USDA distribution map. Naturally occurs in moist blackland prairies, savannas, open woods, shaded banks and borders of rivers, lakes and creeks. Also can be found on waste areas, urban lawns and landscapes.
Black walnut tolerant: yes
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes / yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: The flowers are not often visited by insects, but they attract some bees (Mason, Halictid), skippers, Syrphid flies, and other insects. But the leaves are important food source for the caterpillars of many Fritillary butterflies (Diana, Variegated, Aphrodite, Meadow and Silver-Border Fritillary). The seeds are partially distributed by ants. Various upland gamebirds and small mammals occasionally eat the seeds, incl. the Wild Turkey, Bobwhite, Mourning Dove, and White-Footed Mouse. Wild Turkeys can also eat the leaves and fleshy roots of Viola spp. (Violets). Deer and rabbit may occasionally feed on leaves, but it is not preferable food for them.
Attracts Hummingbirds: no
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Plant combinations: The best use is in wildflower beds, wildlife gardens, woodland edges, naturalizing in the lawn, since it seeds around and naturalizes. In half shade good companions would be for example Aquilegia canadensis, Asarum, Phlox divaricata, Chrysogonum virginianum, Geranium maculatum, Iris cristata, Polygogonatum, Silene regia, Smilacina, Spigelia marilandica or lower grassed or sedges like Carex pennsylvanica
Picture copyright : Joanna Boisse
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Viola sororia 'Freckles' - COMMON VIOLET 'FRECKLES'
$7.99
Cultivar with white flowers and china blue freckles.
Blooming Time: April, with ocassional rebloom in late summer
Size: 4-6" tall x 6" wide, forms small clumps/rosettes of partially evergreen leaves, flowers are big, about 1" wide.
USDA Zones:
Culture: average soils, with moderate moisture, sun, half shade,up to dappled light shade, adaptable to many soil types, including clay. Tolerates droughts too, but may turn dormant
Moisture Needs: average (medium), medium-moist, medium-dry
Origin: Garden origin seed strain cultivar (variable). It is native to whole eastern part of USA, see the USDA distribution map. Naturally occurs in moist blackland prairies, savannas, open woods, shaded banks and borders of rivers, lakes and creeks. Also can be found on waste areas, urban lawns and landscapes.
Black walnut tolerant: yes
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes / yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: The flowers are not often visited by insects, but they attract some bees (Mason, Halictid), skippers, Syrphid flies, and other insects. But the leaves are important food source for the caterpillars of many Fritillary butterflies (Diana, Variegated, Aphrodite, Meadow and Silver-Border Fritillary). The seeds are partially distributed by ants. Various upland gamebirds and small mammals occasionally eat the seeds, incl. the Wild Turkey, Bobwhite, Mourning Dove, and White-Footed Mouse. Wild Turkeys can also eat the leaves and fleshy roots of Viola spp. (Violets). Deer and rabbit may occasionally feed on leaves, but it is not preferable food for them.
Attracts Hummingbirds: no
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Plant combinations: The best use is in wildflower beds, wildlife gardens, woodland edges, naturalizing in the lawn, since it seeds around and naturalizes. In half shade good companions would be for example Aquilegia canadensis, Asarum, Phlox divaricata, Chrysogonum virginianum, Geranium maculatum, Iris cristata, Polygogonatum, Silene regia, Smilacina, Spigelia marilandica or lower grassed or sedges like Carex pennsylvanica
Picture copyright : Joanna Boisse
