April Showers Brought May Flowers

Violet (Evergreen Yellow) Viola sempervirens

Wild herb growing singly or in low mats. Stems trailing, runner-like. 
Leaves: heart shaped evergreen, leathery. 
Flowers: on erect stems, yellow with brown to purple veins, lower petal spurred. 
Fruit : a capsule. At the base of the plant after the bloom is over one can often find budlike flowers which do not open, yet produce seed through self fertilization. 
Used as a poultice of stem and flowers for burns and scalds.
Means: rural happiness

This entry was posted in Living Simply and tagged . Bookmark the permalink.

2 Responses to April Showers Brought May Flowers

  1. hernibs says:

    Thank you, we’ve researched every plant and herb and tree on our property and of course I have a binder full of
    that information. We have a book case full of books on nature too but nowadays we look up information on the internet.

    Like

  2. lovealways7 says:

    You are very knowledgeable about weeds and wild flowers 🌸 and herbs, amazing lady, what you have learned ❤️

    Like

Comments

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s