Our housing development is set within an Oregon decidious woodland "park". The park's elected board, with my input, is considering the scattering of native Oregon wildflower seed, an effort that would be consistant with our movement towards a native forest-like environment. The seeds of native species are difficult to find commercially. Closely related hybrids, however, are available. For example our native yellow wood violet is Viola glabella. I haven't been able to find seed for V. glabella, but Viola tricolor seed, for example,is commonly available commercially. As an example, how likely would it be that the genes of a substituted V. tricolor, would intermix and "dilute" the distributed genome of our lovely native yellow Wood Violet? How about monkey flower (Mimulus), etc, etc?

Garry DeLong