Bird's Foot Violet (Viola pedata) in the Violas Database

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Flowers:	Stemless

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Plant Habit:	Herb/Forb
Life cycle:	Perennial
Sun Requirements:	Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences:	Mesic Dry Mesic Dry
Minimum cold hardiness:	Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Plant Height:	8-10 inches
Plant Spread:	8-10 inches
Leaves:	Other: Palmately compound
Fruit:	Other: Pod with three parts that ejects seeds when ripe
Flowers:	Showy
Flower Color:	Lavender Purple White Other: Variable: often lavender, sometimes with dark upper petals or markings on side petals, sometimes with veins on lowest petal
Bloom Size:	Under 1" 1"-2"
Flower Time:	Spring
Underground structures:	Rhizome
Edible Parts:	Flowers
Wildlife Attractant:	Bees Butterflies
Propagation: Seeds:	Stratify seeds: Needs 2 months cold moist treatment Depth to plant seed: Do not cover seed with soil. Cover with light cloth and keep moist. Sow in situ Start indoors Can handle transplanting
Propagation: Other methods:	Cuttings: Stem Cuttings: Root Division
Pollinators:	Moths and Butterflies Bees
Miscellaneous:	Tolerates poor soil

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Posted by SongofJoy (Clarksville, TN - Zone 6b) on Jan 15, 2012 3:19 PM concerning plant:

Birdsfoot Violet is a little gem for the rock garden or other prominent spot with excellent drainage and full sun or light shade. It can be grown successfully in sand or pea gravel with a little compost. The flowers are 1 to 2 inches wide and shaped like fully opened violet flowers. The two upper petals are violet or lavender and the three lower ones are slightly paler. From March to May, a happy plant may display two dozen or more open flowers at once when the entire plant is no more than 6 to 8 inches around and tall! The leaves (evergreen here in TN) are dissected or finely cut resembling bird's feet with many toes.

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