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FORAGING WILD VIOLETS (VIOLA SP.)

Wild violets are a beautiful addition to the landscape every spring, and they also happen to be both edible and medicinal. 

They’re easy to identify, and all species of violas (wild and cultivated) are edible, so there are plenty of opportunities to forage violets (even if you’re just “foraging” the garden pansies.)

My mom has a special love for wild violets, and she was amazed to see them growing wild all over our land here in Vermont.

In California, she actually grows them in her garden, carefully tending them with drip irrigation.  They like moist soil and shade, which isn’t all that abundant in the Mojave.

Still, she plants them underneath trees as a shade-loving ground cover, propagating year after year from violet root divisions (and allowing them to self-seed.)

For those of us living in more reasonable climates, violets are carefree additions to the wild landscape.  They’re likely to come up in moist spots on the lawn, especially in shady areas underneath trees or alongside the north side of the house.

They’re also abundant in the woods and at the edges of fields where they’ll get enough shade to thrive.

Foraging Wild Violets (Viola sp.) (practicalselfreliance.com)

 

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