Sweet Violet
- Flowers late February to May.
- Sweet Violet grows in hedge banks, woodland, churchyards, waste and brownfield sites and beside roads and footpaths.
- It is a native, perennial, low-growing, rhizomatous, patch-forming, fragrant herb that grows in patches of plants linked by rooting stolons.
The flowers are small (12-18mm across) and violet. The spur is usually lilac or purple.