This violet has large, creamy-white (A) to white (B) flowers with a few purple “nectar-lines” leading though a white “beard” to an orange center (B). A distinguishing feature is shown in image (C); the stipules at the leaf axils are fringed. The leaves are heart-shaped, smaller at the bottom, larger at the top. These violets normally flower somewhat later, in May, than the other three species of violets growing in our nature centers.