dog violet
Viola canina latin

Dog violet and birds foot trefoil grow for shorter periods.

Dog violets grew, pale blue and delicate, beside her.

It is also called wood violet or dog violet.

Where such communities occur on a rocky shore crab apple often grows with roses and dog violet.

Dog violet is the common name for various species of the plant genus Viola with unscented flowers.

It has no more fragrance than the English dog violet, and it, too, tends to meander outside its assigned space.

The main larval food plant of the species is the common dog violet Viola riviniana.

I like my dog violets.

Scented violets would be lovely, of course, but I am content with the less-demanding habits of dog violets.

"Here's a native violet, the dog violet," Mr. Mehrhoff said.

The celandines and tiny dog violets were out, and clumps of pale yellow primroses were everywhere.

Dog violets, crimson cinquefoils and hooded cobra lilies pushed through tangles of ruby-bright wild strawberries.

In England, dog violet is the name used for Viola canina, a short, small-flowered native violet, which can be invasive and has no fragrance.

Viola adunca is a species of violet known by the common names hookedspur violet, sand violet, and western dog violet.

Many cottage garden plants are useful: dog violets, hearts-ease, forget-me-nots, Welsh poppies, honesty and primroses will seed themselves and soften the formality of the roses.

The female lays a single brood of eggs in the dried herbage of violets, especially western dog violet (Viola adunca), the only known larval food plant.

Sunflower, rose, jasmine, jasmine-zambak, narcissus, tulip, lily, dog violet, brush flax, iris and must-rose are included in the flora of Mansehra.

Just below the high-water mark, dog violets are abundant and in some turloughs there may be a dense sward of the rare sky-blue turlough violet about one metre further down.

Dog violet in North America means Viola conspersa, which is taller (eight inches in flower, instead of the British version's three inches) and has larger and more abundant blooms.

Dog violets (not to be confused with dogtooth violets, which are not violets at all and are more accurately called trout lilies) are better on this side of the pond, anyway.

IN England, where violets grow so willingly that gardeners can afford to be snooty about varieties, dog violets are about as welcome as curs at an American Kennel Club show.

There are large areas of Bluebell, Wood Anemone, Dog Violet, Primrose, Yellow Archangel, Ramsons, Sanicle and Early-purple Orchid.

They were; 4c Dog Violet, 5c Dandelion, 48c Primrose, 60c Hawthorn, 65c Bluebell, €2 Lords and Ladies and €5 Dog Rose.

I suppose if I could cultivate lush beds of English sweet violets, Corsican violets and other scented and refined members of the genus, I'd turn up my nose at dog violets, too.

Dog violets, and badges depicting them, were sold in fund-raising efforts in the UK and Australia on and around Violet Day in commemoration of the lost soldiers of World War I.