The common blue violet (Viola sororia) is both an enthusiastic, hardy spring charmer or thuggish weed, depending on your goals. If you are fortunate — or aggrieved — the purplish and white ...

Walking Wright Woods the other day while admiring trout lilies, spring beauties and hepaticas, I noted some common violets, the blue ones. These are often called dooryard violets and the Latin ...

Common blue violets (Viola soraria) look fairly harmless when you first see them in a small cluster but they can quickly spread all over your yard and become nearly impossible to get rid of.

Why is the sky blue? It's a common question asked by children ... That's basically true, but then why don't we see a violet sky? The blue sky we observe depends upon two factors: how sunlight ...