Can plants be described as cute? If you are willing to make that concession, Viola pedata is one of the plants that is most likely to fit this description. With its small stature, highly cut foliage that actually resembles a bird’s foot and a long blooming profusion of flowers that look just a little too big and showy for this plant’s stature, this Violet has a high cute factor. It blooms without a break from April to early June featuring 5 lobed Violet flowers held above the foliage singly on naked stalks that have a deeper purple shade on the top petals with a lighter purple on the bottom petals all of which surround a distinctive orange stamen. This early season butterfly attractor thrives in full sun and partial shade and is native to many open meadow and woodland sitiuations making it a perfect plant to mass in a number of spots in your native landscape. Bird’s Foot Violet is easy to grow and your landscape with certainly have a much higher ‘cute factor’ if you use it!