I sounds to me like you have something other than the usual wild native violets. Perhaps you have the offspring of some sort of domesticated violet that occurs in a wide variety of colors. There are many species of native violet, and each one would reproduce true from seed. That is, the offspring should look like the parents. Hybrids are possible, but not as common as various color appear to be in your garden. Have you tried to determine what species of violet you are growing?

It is V. sororia (or a close ally, but V. sororia is most likely). The 'broken' flowers have been seen before on V. sororia. For instance, Jeana Prewitt (Tennessee) found some, she and I discussed them a couple of years ago, and ended up naming the form 'Jeapurrs' (rhymes with jeepers-creepers). It is good to see your plants looking so well; such healthy foliage. Sometimes, plants (not just violets) with pale-spalshed flowers get that way because of a viral infection, which can manifest itself in the leaves sometimes too. And that can make the whole plant weak; not in your case though. So the colouration of your violets is wither not caused by a virus, or it is due to a virus that is well-tolerated (at least so far). Your dog digging them up will probably have done the population little harm, since new plants will grow from pieces of the rhizomes. In case you are not familar with it, V. sororia has two nicely finely violet/white speckled cultivars called 'Freckles' and 'Speckles' (depending on which colour forms the dots). And there is a form with white flowers with a blue centre (V. sororia f. priceana, the Confederate violet) and a similar one with pinky-purple centre, 'Alice Witter'. There are also pure white forms and at least one pinky-purple one. They all tend to breed true from seed; it would be interesting to see/know if your colour form also comes true from seed.

Tom's pretty much said it all. But I could add: It should be referred to as Viola sororia f. priceana - that is, it is a form not a variety (technically, the distinction between form and variety in general is minor, but in this case I'd go with Cooperrider's assignment of it to the rank of form (forma in Latin) in 1984. And, yes - use seedpods from the cleistogamous flowers to grow more of the same. No need to hand-pollinate, using a bee's probiscis or not (poor bee!). Looking for those seed pods will keep you watching for weeks in the summer. Look right down at soil level, where they will appear first. They will turn up (but still near the soil) shortly before the pods open and shed their seeds. There are also purple colour forms, and there is a purple equivalent of the f. priceana you have found (sold as a cultivar called 'Alice Witter'). White ones as well. And white speckled with blue (that's 'Freckles') and blue speckled with white (that's 'Speckles'). All these colour forms reproduce fairly reliably from cleistogamous seed. Enjoy - as you obviously are!

Yeah! I have priceana and the regular purple. I saw your gaggle of seedlings-- exciting! :) I was thinking about her because of my success with the others, although since my space is limited I wasn't sure if it would be worth it since I already have Priceana. I think it may be, though, just for sheer number of blooms.