Texas Native Plants | Violets

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Reference Books:

Ajilvsgi, Geyata, Wildflowers of Texas, Shearer Pub., Fredericksburg, TX, 2003

Correll,D. S.,M. C. Johnston, Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas, 1979

Curry, Mary, North Central Texas Wildflowers, Mary Curry Pub., Decatur, TX, 2015

Diggs, George, Barney Lipscomb, Robert O’Kennon, Shinner’s and Mahler’s   Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas, Austin College and BRIT Publishers, 1999, pages 572-4

Eason, Michael, Wildflowers of Texas, Timber Press, Portland, OR, 2018

Eastman, John, Wildflowers of the Eastern United States, Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA, 2014 Enquist, Marshall, Wildflowers of the Texas Hill Country, Lone Star Botanical, Austin, Texas, 1987 Kirkpatrick, Zoe Merriman, Wildflowers of the Western Plains, A Field Guide,  University of TX Press, Austin,1992

Loughmiller, Campbell and Lynn, Texas Wildflowers, A Field Guide, University of TX Press,  Austin, TX, Revised 2006

Martin, Laura C., The Wildflower Meadow Book-A Gardener’s Guide, East Woods Press,  Fast & McMillan Press, Charlotte, NC, 1986

Nieland, Lashara, Willa Finley, Lone Star Wildflowers, A Guide to Texas Flowering Plants,  Texas Tech Univ. Press, Lubbock, TX, 2009

Phillips, Harry R., Growing and Propagating Wildflowers, University of North Carolina Press,  Chapel Hill, 1985 

Reaume, Tom, 620 Wild Plants of North America, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada, 2009 Steiner, Lynn M., Prairie-Style Gardens, Timer Press, Portland, OR, 2010 Tull, 

Delena, George O. Miller, A Field Guide to Wildflowers, Trees, & Shrubs of Texas,  Gulf Publishing, Houston, 1991 Wills, Mary Motz, Howard Irwin, Roadside Flowers of Texas, Univ. of TX Press, Austin, Texas, 1961

Online sources:

Flora of North America,  floranorthamerica.org 

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center,  wildflower.org 

Master Gardener Program,  wimastergardener.org 

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service,  plants.usda.gov

Native Plants of Central Texas

 

 

 

 

 

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Pansies | Viola | Johnny Jump-up

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Garden Inspiration

Pansies are cold strong

lavender pansy 'Nature frosty blue'

Silver Elaeagnus and lamb's ear (Stachys byzantina) 

with soft lavender pansy 'Nature frosty blue'

Johnny Jump Up ‘Tiger Eye'

A gold-orange yellow with dark defining stripes

Trailing violet

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Johnny Jump Up! | February is the Month for Viola

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February's birth flower is the Viola.

Johnny Jump Up ‘Tiger Eye'

A gold-orange yellow with dark defining stripes

  

Johnny Jump Up (Viola cornuta) 

Corina violet with yellow face

Family | VIOLACEAE

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