Common Blue Violet, Viola sororia From within the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
This is a native perennial plant with the leaves and flowers emerging directly from the rhizomes, and forming a basal rosette. A typical mature plant may be 6" across and 4" high, with the flowers slightly higher than the leaves. The leaves are individually up to 3" long and 3" across (excluding the long petioles), and vary in color from yellowish green to dark green, depending on growing conditions. They are oval-ovate to orbicular-cordate in shape, and crenate or serrate along the margins. Different populations of plants can [Plants with Blue Flowers] vary in the hairiness of their leaves – from nearly glabrous to conspicuously hairy or pubescent. The flowers are about ¾" across, and consist of 5 rounded petals. There are 2 upper petals, 2 lateral petals with white hairs (or beards) near the throat of the flower, and a lower petal that functions as a landing pad for visiting insects.
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A Freshly Emerging Fern shoot from within the Cuyahoga Valley National Park
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The Wildflower -Longspur Violet "Viola Rostrata" From within the Cuyahoga Valley National Park
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This Wildflower has Other common names for Trout Lily are Dogtooth Violet, Adder's Tongue, and Yellow Snowdrop. Trout lily's appear in mid to late March in North Alabama, and are often found in large colonies. The plant gets the common name "Trout Lily" from the spotted pattern on the leaves, which look like the pattern on a trout, fish. The common name "dog violet" is a misnomer because the plant is a lily, not a violet. The Trout Lily grows in most of the eastern part of the United States. A similar but rare species is the white trout lily, Erythronium albidum. Which has white petals. The Trout Lily is one of the earliest spring wildflowers to bloom
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The Wildflower- Spring Beauty, "Claytonia virginica" from within the Cuyahoga Valley National Park
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