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The Common Purple or Hooded Blue Violet has won the hearts of millions of people by its beauty. It is practically found everywhere, in meadows, marshes, woods and waysides. However it grows best in meadow bogs and in shady cool dells. Its flowers are bluish purple in color. These golden hearted flowers have five petals and are very commonly seen. Its leaves are heart shaped, and have a saw edge. The leaves are folded inwards. Its leaves are more in length than in width when the plant grows up in marshy woodlands. It has elastic capsules which have three corners. The seeds are sprinkled from the capsule. Scientifically its known was the Violet cucullata.
Bird's foot Violet or Violet pedata grows well in sandy and shale soil. The flowers have dual colors. The lower petals are pale bluish purple colored and upper ones are dark purple with a golden heart. The plant is identified by its velvety and large flowers and its foliage in thick tufts. Its narrow leaves are finely cut. No blind flowers are produced. The plant can also flower in the autumn and this is a peculiarity of its family. The lower petal's spur is slender and long. Butterflies and bees are attracted to this flower. Since Napoleon's day, Sweet Violet or March is a part of the politics in France. Its botanical name is Violet odorata. This flower is also mentioned in the old European literature. Its violet is adapted by the Yale University for its own corn flower. Bachelor's button or Centaurea cyanus is the flower of the Yale University. There are three varieties of white violets. They produce small, white colored flowers. They grow well in damps, along the streams, moist meadows and mossy places. Lance leaved Violet or Violet lanceolata has narrow, smooth and tapering leaves. Primrose leaved Violet or Violet primulifolia has oval shaped leaves. Sweet White Violet or Violet blanda is the dearest of all the violets. It is also known as little white blanda. Its fragrant cordate leaves are circular in shape. The Downy Yellow Violet or Violet pubescens flowers from April to May. It has a single stem. Its flowers are bright yellow colored. The leafy and erect stem is covered with fine hairs. This flower can be easily distinguished from the Smooth Yellow Violet or Violet scabriuscula. This plant grows in moist places and blossoms earlier than the downy variety. It flowers are paler and its leaves are thickly dentate. The leaves taper at the top. Several stems are found in this variety. The beauty of yellow violets was described by Bryant, who found them one day by the snow bank's edges in the month of April. In Bryant's own words, yellow violets were described as Of all her train the hands of spring First plant thee in the watery mould," This was written irrespective of the fact that the rounded leaved violets preferred wooded, rocky and dry hillsides. It was believed by Muller that after developing from the green stage, violets were initially yellow colored. They were not white originally.
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