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ctcarol said:I wouldn't mind them so much if they bloom. The ones I have never bloom though...they just spread. They must be a variety that blooms under the leaves , as the seed had to come from somewhere.

Violets have two types of flowers, chasmogamous and cleistogamous. Chasmogamous flowers are the showy ones that you typically notice. Cleistogamous flowers are self pollinating so they don't have showy petals, often they don't even open, and are easily overlooked. In violets, most of the seed is produced by the cleistogamous flowers.