Photographing Wildflowers

Violet – Viola

Differentiating between violets

The family of violas can be hard to tell apart, but there’s a great ID guide published on Twitter.

I’ve had quite a lot of trouble sorting them out as you can tell from viola blog posts of early 2020.

The violas I have spotted have been growing in open ground such as short verges.

common dog-violet flower viola riviniana seaford head may 2020
Common dog-violet flower – Viola riviniana – Seaford Head – May 2020

Sweet violet – Viola odorata

sweet violet sample
Sweet violet – Viola odorata – Seaford – Jan 2020

Identified by rich purple (or white) flower colour with rounded sepal appendages, perfume, and course round leaves.

white violets alfriston rd verge seaford mar 2020
White violets – probably Viola odorata – Alfriston Rd verge – Seaford – Mar 2020

Common dog violet

More delicate and pointed foliage, paler, bluer flower, large pointed sepal appendages, dark veining on bottom petal, paler spur.

Common dog-violet viola riviniana Seaford head may 2020
Common dog-violet – Viola riviniana – Seaford Head – May 2020

There are of course other violas that I haven’t yet spotted or confidently identified!

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