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Viola striata
Also called Cream Violet, Pale Violet, Striped Violet, Common White Violet, Cream White Violet
Viola striata is a small perennial woodland violet from eastern North America, grown for its cream-white flowers with purple stripes in spring. It does best in cool, moist, partly shaded conditions similar to the mesic forests where it grows wild.
Viola striata is a species of violet known by the common names striped cream violet and creamy violet. It is native to eastern North America, with its distribution being centered in interior areas away from the coastal plain. Its preferred habitat is mesic forests. It is a small, caulescent, perennial herb that has purple-striped white flowers in the spring.
The leaves and blossoms are edible; the latter can be used to make jelly.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Viola striata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
