{"id":830,"date":"2014-09-12T14:56:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T14:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.naturewatch.ca\/plantwatch\/?page_id=830"},"modified":"2014-11-14T18:19:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T18:19:08","slug":"early-blue-violet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.naturewatch.ca\/plantwatch\/early-blue-violet\/","title":{"rendered":"Early blue violet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Early blue violet <em>(Viola adunca)<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturewatch.ca\/plantwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/viola_adunca.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-239\" style=\"display:block; float:left; padding-right:2%; overflow:hidden; min-width:40%; max-width:100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturewatch.ca\/plantwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/viola_adunca.jpg\" alt=\"Early blue violet (Viola adunca)\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><strong>Also known as:<\/strong> Western long-spurred violet, hookedspur violet<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturewatch.ca\/plantwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/flower.gif\" alt=\"flower\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturewatch.ca\/plantwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/meadow.gif\" alt=\"meadow\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturewatch.ca\/plantwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/forest.gif\" alt=\"forest\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bloom time:<\/strong> May<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Additional photos:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-left:5%; overflow:hidden;\">\n<li> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.naturewatch.ca\/plantwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/viola_adunca_1238637114.jpg\">Viola adunca mid bloom<\/a><br \/>credit: Linda Kershaw<\/li>\n<li> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.naturewatch.ca\/plantwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/viola_adunca_1238637140.jpg\">Viola adunca<\/a><br \/>credit: Linda Kershaw<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>General<\/strong>: A small wildflower (herb) that grows 4 cm to 10 cm tall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leaves &amp; Twigs: <\/strong>Leaves are 1 cm to 3 cm wide, heart- to kidney-shaped, and are attached along the flower stem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flowers &amp; Fruits: <\/strong>  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fragrant, bluish-purple flowers are up to 2 cm across. There are   purple lines on the three lower petals and white &#8216;beards&#8217; on the two   side petals.<\/li>\n<li>A dry, 3-valved, many-seeded capsule.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Habitat: <\/strong>Early blue violet plants grow in open woods and prairie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PlantWatch Pointers: <\/strong>If the plants are very abundant, mark a plot about one metre by one metre in size.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>To Observe:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First bloom: When the first flowers are open in the plant, or patch observed.<\/li>\n<li>Mid bloom: When approximately half (50%) of the flowers on the plants under observation are open.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Distribution Map:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturewatch.ca\/plantwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/viola_adunca_map.jpg\" alt=\"Distribution Map\" width=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p> <strong>This species is monitored in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alberta<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote style=\"margin: 2% 5%; padding: 1%; border-left: 5px solid #fdb714; background-color: #ff8200; float: left; width: 90%; color: #fff; font-style:italic;\"><p>Violet leaves, high in Vitamin C, can be used in salads and to make tea. When seed capsules mature, seeds are shot out to several cm away from the parent plant. Each seed provides an &#8216;ant snack&#8217;, so seeds are carried to good growing areas by ants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early blue violet (Viola adunca) Also known as: Western long-spurred violet, hookedspur violet Bloom time: May Additional photos: Viola adunca mid bloomcredit: Linda Kershaw Viola aduncacredit: Linda Kershaw General: A small wildflower (herb) that grows 4 cm to 10 cm&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-830","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Early blue violet - PlantWatch<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.naturewatch.ca\/plantwatch\/early-blue-violet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Early blue violet - 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