The state flower of New Jersey is truly a beautiful flower. This flower is the pretty Common Blue Violet. This flower's scientific name is Viola Sororia. This flower is quite an early bloomer in comparison to others as it begins to blossom in March all the way into May.
You can find the Common Blue Violet flower in Eastern North America. The areas that you can find the Common Blue Violet in is moist to mesic black soil prairies, open woodlands, woodlnd edges, savannahs, nd wooded slopes along rivers or lakes.
How to identify a Common Blue Violet: They can be hard to identify, but typically they have bearded blue-violet flowers with short spurrs, and broad heart-shaped basal leaves rounded or blunt at the tip. The Blue Violet can sometimes be hairy to a certain degree.
