Viola walteri Woodlanders Introduction As a plant of the

As a plant of the semi-desert Southwest

a plant of permanence and presence

spruce pine settles happily into the wooded margins just above the bottomlands

Growing four to six feet tall and wide

usually upright hooded cylinders

Viola walteri Woodlanders Introduction As a plant of theA native violet grown as much for the leaf as the flower. Viola walteri, Walter's violet, belongs to the violet family, Violaceae, and honors the British born botanist Thomas Walter, whose Flora Caroliniana of 1788 was the first flora of the American Southeast. The prostrate blue violet ranges in the wild from Texas east to Florida and north to Virginia and Ohio, threading the floors of moist deciduous woodlands and shaded rocky ledges. The foliage is