Violet Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Violet (Viola yedoensis) is the Chinese violet, zi hua di ding, a small stemless perennial of the violet family, Violaceae, native to China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan, where it grows in lawns, roadsides, field margins and open woodland. It forms a low rosette 5 to 15 cm tall of narrow, oblong to triangular leaves with long stalks and winged margins, and in early spring bears deep purple-violet flowers with a darker-veined lower petal and a short spur, each on its own stalk. Later in the season it sets seed from small closed flowers. We extract the dried herb.