All foraged flowers were brought home and canned into jelly. I still make a small batch of jelly every year, boiling the violet petals down to a bubbling, indigo syrup mash on my stove top.

In the instances at left, the violet flowers gain the benefits of genetic ... these flowers had no need to evolve bright, colorful petals.

The Roundleaf Yellow Violet is one of the many violets that bloom in the early spring in the mountains. This species is small ...

But Palatine is different. The actual smell of violet petals isn’t the result of plucking the flower to extract the fragrance. Instead, breakthrough technology was used where the flower’s ...

“This decision benefits everyone because communities get clean drinking water and healthier rivers and this imperiled flower gets a fighting chance at survival.” Adorned with soft blue-violet petals ...

With its bright yellow petals, abundant nectar ... Hint: Only a very specialized pollinator can reach this flower's nectar. The common blue violet has a variety of insect pollinators, but there ...