Downy Yellow Violet (smooth form) |
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These violets produce striking yellow flowers with fine purple lines in the throat from March to as late as June, attractive heart-shaped leaves up to 3" or more, seeds in readily, small cut flowers, seed originally from NY (Oneida Co.), moist soil, sun to shade, 4-12" tall.
Zone 3-6
Native range: Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Indiana and Minnesota. Rare in RI
Downy Yellow Violet (downy form) |
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Lovely yellow violets from March to June, downy heart-shaped leaves up to 4”, pale seed pods so hairy as to appear downright furry(!), small cut flowers, seed originally from PA (Buck’s Co.), moist soil, sun to shade, 4-12 “ tall.
Zone 3-7
Native Range: s. Saskatchewan to Nova Scotia, south to n. Alabama and ne. Nebraska. Rare in RI
A word about the confusing world of yellow violets.
I love the unexpected look of a yellow violet! However, it seems that putting an accurate name on these plants has become increasingly confusing over the years. You see, plant taxonomists have been having fun over the past several years with some of the yellow violets. Once upon a time there were several recognized species of stemmed yellow violets with roundish heart-shaped leaves (V. pubescens, V. eriocarpon, V. pensylvanica, etc..) but upon some study it was decided that they were all simply variants of the same plant so they all got lumped together under V. pubescens. We have tried to look at our yellow violets that way here at Toadshade, and quite frankly, we have 3 different populations that differ quite a bit. So this year we took a look at them again and found that some authorities now recognize subspecies of V. pubescens. We have done our best to figure out what we have. This year we have 2 of our 3 forms available: what we believe to be V. pubescens var. peckii (seed originally from Onieda County, New York ) and V. pubescens var. scabriuscula (seed originally from Buck’s County, PA)
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