The Wild Garden: Hansen's Northwest Native Plant Database

Viola sempervirens (Evergreen Violet, Trailing Yellow Violet)

Kingdom	:	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	:	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	:	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	:	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	:	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	:	Dilleniidae
Order	:	Violales
Family	:	Violaceae – Violet family
Genus	:	Viola L. – violet
Species	:	Viola glabella Nutt. – pioneer violet

The evergreen habit of these delicate looking leaves is indeed a plus, and they will look very nice scaling a rock wall or gracing a forest floor.

The spreading stolons will assure that a nice woodland groundcover will result.

The spring flowers are yellow and are marked with purple veins.

This is truly a woodland violet that prefers moist humus rich conditions such as those found in coniferous forests.

Evergreen Violet is routinely found along the coast of Alaska, BC and the Pacific northwest as well as California and Idaho, USDA zones 1- 9.

The flowers of this violet are edible.

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