Roses are red. Violets are blue. But sometimes they can be yellow, too. Or even white. Roughly 20 species of violets grow in Illinois, and many have heart-shaped leaves with five petals on blooms ...

May 26—The long wait to see the spring woods open up and produce new wildflowers was worth it. Quickly, as snow melted, the next phase began on the same forest floor that was covered by a snowpack ...

For Christmas one of my granddaughters gave me a charming, small book called "Violas and Violettas," by Rodney Fuller, a specialist in the cultivation of violas and violettas. Viola is the correct ...

PECOS, Texas (CN) - The Guadalupe Mountains Violet is so rare that only 35 plants are known to remain, in a single group that clings to heavily shaded limestone cliffs in southern New Mexico - but the ...