The wood violet is the Wisconsin state flower. It’s sweet-smelling and grows everywhere, but it flourishes especially in rich, shady woodland — like the beautiful hill where our Women’s Leadership Center is rising.
Now this unassuming-but-famous little flower is being honored in the architecture of the Women’s Leadership Center. Our Council building was designed to have five “lobes” to resemble the five-petaled violet.
Want to know something else we love about violets? The Latin name for the common blue violet variety called viola sororia means violets “of or concerning a sister.” How perfect is that? At the Center, we are all about sisterhood!
