May 30, 2026 Author: Phyllis Root • Photographer: Kelly Povo Violet season is fleeting. We’ve seen all nineteen of Minnesota’s native violets now, and we are working on definitively telling them apart. Green violet, once we found it, was unmistakable, but the others–purple, blue, white–can be baffling. Are stems sparsely hairy, partly hairy, very hairy, … Continue reading A Tale of Two Boardwalks