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"Most of us are familiar with the pretty, purple-flowered violets in our spring lawns and woodlands. Others have delved into the forests and come across violets with white or yellow flowers. In fact, violets are distributed across almost every habitat around
the world, ranging from species smaller than your pinkie fingernail found at 14,000 feet in the Andes to tree violets in the canopy of the Amazon rainforest, with some species inhabiting the wettest places in the Alakai Swamp on Kauai to eking out an existence
in the hot deserts of the Middle East," said Ballard, professor of <a href="https://www.ohio.edu/cas/plant-biology" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,105,78)">environmental and plant biology</a> in the College of Arts and Sciences.
He's also a member of the <a href="https://www.ohio.edu/cas/molecular-cellular-biology" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,105,78)">molecular and cellular biology</a> graduate program and the <a href="https://www.ohio.edu/cas/cas/ocees/" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,105,78)">Ohio
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As a violet specialist, Ballard has conducted research on violets all over the Western Hemisphere, in Europe, and on the Hawaiian and Canary Islands. He will discuss the biological diversity and evolution of the violet family, as he highlights the amazing landscapes
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"Most of us are familiar with the pretty, purple-flowered violets in our spring lawns and woodlands. Others have delved into the forests and come across violets with white or yellow flowers. In fact, violets are distributed across almost every habitat around
the world, ranging from species smaller than your pinkie fingernail found at 14,000 feet in the Andes to tree violets in the canopy of the Amazon rainforest, with some species inhabiting the wettest places in the Alakai Swamp on Kauai to eking out an existence
in the hot deserts of the Middle East," said Ballard, professor of <a href="https://www.ohio.edu/cas/plant-biology" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,105,78)">environmental and plant biology</a> in the College of Arts and Sciences.
He's also a member of the <a href="https://www.ohio.edu/cas/molecular-cellular-biology" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,105,78)">molecular and cellular biology</a> graduate program and the <a href="https://www.ohio.edu/cas/cas/ocees/" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,105,78)">Ohio
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As a violet specialist, Ballard has conducted research on violets all over the Western Hemisphere, in Europe, and on the Hawaiian and Canary Islands. He will discuss the biological diversity and evolution of the violet family, as he highlights the amazing landscapes
that harbor violets and some of the human cultures that live among them.</p>
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