Side by side
Compare plates
Lay two plants next to each other — uses, risks, and whether either has a grow guide.
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Heartsease
Viola tricolor
A small three-colored face for salad, sugar, and a cool-season edge that does not mind sitting with lettuce.
Flavor
Mild, lettuce-green, a faint wintergreen in some types.
Against
Heat knocks it back
Days to harvest
60–70 days from seed; sooner from starts
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Sweet violet
Viola odorata
The April violet of scent, sugar, and a syrup the color of dusk — a woodland edge plant, not a summer bed.
Flavor
Perfume, then nothing, then perfume again. Sugar holds it.
Symptoms
sore throat, cough
Against
Can run in a kind lawn
Days to harvest
Established clumps flower the first spring