White-Flowered Blue Violet ~Viola sororia 'Alba' Seeds~ Native Wildflower ~ aka Lesbian Flower ~ Purple Meadow Violet~ Woolly, Hooded Wood

Name: White-Flowered Blue Violet ~Viola sororia 'Alba' Seeds~ Native Wildflower ~ aka Lesbian Flower ~ Purple Meadow Violet~ Woolly, Hooded Wood
Brand: EdenWilds
SKU: 686678868
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This is a cultivar of the Common Blue Violet with snow-white flowers (Latin name Viola sororia 'alba').
Common Blue Violet (Latin name Viola sororia) also called common meadow violet, the lesbian flower, woolly violet, hooded violet, and wood violet, is a short-stemmed perennial plant with edible flowers and leaves native to eastern North America.

Also check out the Freckled variety with beautiful white flowers speckled with tiny, deep blue specs all over the flowers on my Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/listing/690096583/freckled-blue-violet-viola-sororia
Also check out the wild form with beautiful blue to purple flowers on my Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/listing/690080659/common-blue-violet-viola-sororia-wild
Also the red-flowered cultivar https://www.etsy.com/listing/700533227/red-flowered-blue-violet-viola-sororia

The State Flower of Illinois, Rhode Island, Wisconsin and New Jersey the native wildflower has many uses besides it's use as a common lawn and garden plant.
Viola sororia has historically been used for food and for medicine. The flowers and leaves are edible, and some sources suggest the roots can also be eaten. The Cherokee used it to treat colds and headaches. Rafinesque, in his Medical Flora, a Manual of the Medical Botany of the United States of North America, wrote of Viola sororia being used by his American contemporaries for coughs, sore throats, and constipation.

In the 1930s, a Broadway play featured a lesbian character who wooed her lady love with violets, inspiring a violet fad as well as its nickname “the lesbian flower.”

~ Germination instructions ~
First, soak to seeds for 24 hours to soften the outer seed coating. Viola sororia seeds require cold stratification to coax the seeds out of dormancy. Cold stratification is achieved by scattering the seeds on the surface of the planting medium, barely covering them with a sprinkling of moist soil and placing them in the fridge for one month to six weeks. Containers are then moved to an area where the soil will remain between 45 to 55 degrees Fahrenheit.

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