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Common Wild Violet
Viola riviniana

Common Wild Violet is a low perennial. The petals are violet with short cream-coloured or whitish spur. The leaves are round to heart shaped; some of them grow on long stalks in a central non-flowering rosette
This familiar plant grows on banks and in pastures throughout Ireland as well as on sand dunes and in woods
The flowers bloom in March and April and again in July and August
Common Wild Violet is common all over Britain and western Europe, and is found in Morocco and Madeira.


Other 'Early Spring' flowers include:
Bilberry | Blackthorn | Bogbean | Cowslip | Cuckoo Flower | Early Purple Orchid | Heartsease | Irish Orchid | Irish Spurge |
From the Appletree Press title:

Irish Wild Flowers - Deluxe Edition.

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