This section is from the book "Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers", by Caroline A. Creevey. Also available from Amazon: Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers.
Color, blue, sometimes white or pale blue. Flowers, fragrant. Leaves, clustered, broadly heart-shaped, on petioles.
This is the English violet, so much cultivated and sold on our city streets. It often escapes from cultivation and is found in fields.
 
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