Woolly Blue Violet has blue-purple spring flowers and softly hairy leaves and stems. Like many violets, it can quietly establish itself in a garden and eventually create a lovely spring carpet. The flowers aren't all the same. In addition to its showy spring flowers, violets can produce small, closed flowers called cleistogamous flowers later in the season.
Violets are famous for their unusual seed-dispersal strategy: when the seed capsules mature, they can eject their seeds several feet away, helping the plant spread. The name “woolly” refers to the plant's hairy or softly pubescent stems and leaves, which distinguish it from some smoother-leaved violets.

Whoolly Blue Violet can be surprisingly persistent once established. A plant that looks like a small, innocent woodland perennial can eventually pop up throughout a lawn or garden. Decide whether you want a groundcover or a specimen plant. Woolly Blue Violet is lovely when allowed to form a colony, but it is not a plant for gardeners who want every perennial to remain exactly where it was planted.