Common Blue Violets, Confederate Violet Form
Viola sororia fo. priceana
                    
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2019 Photograph, Common Blue Violets, Confederate Violet Form (Viola sororia fo. priceana, Violet Family, Violaceae), Fairfax, Virginia, © 2020.
It is often called the Confederate Violet because of the resemblance of its gray-white and navy-blue colors to those of the soldiers of the Confederate States of America, during the US. Civil War.
Jian Zhe Li

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