A mass of wild, common blue violets blooming in a neighbor’s yard last week made a stunning sight, so I stopped and asked if I could take a picture. “Sure, go ahead, but I’d rather be rid of these ...

Roses are red. Violets are blue. But sometimes they can be yellow, too. Or even white. Roughly 20 species of violets grow in Illinois, and many have heart-shaped leaves with five petals on blooms ...

The other day, I was photographing a large clump of common blue violets on a neighbor’s lawn when she remarked that they were pretty, but “mostly weeds.” I said I know that violets can be banes of ...

Mid-May is prime time for violets, with different native wild violets blooming in wet and dry places in Westborough. At one extreme, marsh blue violet (Viola cucullata) grows in wet, swampy ...