Hi

Have had a plant for many years which I believe is either Viola cunninghamii or V hederacea Always limped along in the shadehouse never growing much with an occasional flower , Got disgusted with it and planted it out in the shadegarden where it limped along also lol It has come up in the cracks in the paving I put in two years ago where it is growing like a weed Just maybe it will flower enough to finally get an ID??

Don't believe I've ever seen any native violets?? Good luck with yours!!! gary

We've got just under 5 acres of mostly wooded property but there is only one particular area where they grow wild and I can't figure out why. Anyway, it's filtered sun under mostly pines and some hardwoods, ground is cool and moist due to all the pine and leaf mulch. I've never tried to transplant it, I learned long ago that natives just don't like being messed with.

I know it's a crap shoot transplanting them, but I had some luck with that in SC, so I'm crossing my fingers. I think these like moist places, because where I've found them here is one boggy part of the lawn under gum trees and in boggy parts under oaks around the pond (which is only a summer pond, dry right now)

Gary, this is the one I want v. sororia f. priceana. It's found here wild, but I haven't seen any. I'm still looking, though.
http://americanvioletsociety.org/Violet_Keys/Viola_sororia_f_priceana.htm