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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Viola fimbriatula
FAMILY
Violaceae
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Quite similar to the closely related V. emarginata, which has leaves more triangular, often with straight sides, and blades usually only as long as wide or barely longer. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola sagittata var. ovata
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH A taxonomic treatment of the violets (Violaceae) of the northeastern US and adjacent Canada (Ballard, Kartesz, & Nishino, 2023)
Viola fimbriatula
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6 (2015)
Viola sagittata var. ovata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Violaceae of the Southeastern US (McKinney & Russell, 2002)
Viola sagittata var. ovata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Viola sagittata var. ovata
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Viola sagittata
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-008:
Viola fimbriatula FAMILY Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Viola fimbriatula
COMMON NAME:
Ovate-leaf Violet, Northern Downy Violet, Sand Violet
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JK Marlow jkm190427_7988
April Jackson County SC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm190427_7989
April Jackson County SC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm190427_7992
April Jackson County SC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm190427_7993
April Jackson County SC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Petioles, leaf lower surfaces, and peduncles ± hirtellous (rarely glabrous), per Weakley's Flora (2020).
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Herbarium of Clemson University h_cu25454
May Bucks County PA
Leaves are often angled upward, blades lanceolate, with convex margins, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmvfimbriatula_dch
May
Petals bluish violet, usually white toward the base, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Herbarium of Clemson University h_cu37931
July New London County CT
Lvs elliptical, oblong, to oblong-ovate (rarely lanceolate), longer than broad, per Weakley's Flora.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Viola fimbriatula
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola sagittata var. ovata
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
A taxonomic treatment of the violets (Violaceae) of the northeastern US and adjacent Canada (Ballard, Kartesz, & Nishino, 2023)
Viola fimbriatula
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6
Viola sagittata var. ovata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Violaceae of the Southeastern US (McKinney & Russell, 2002)
Viola sagittata var. ovata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Viola sagittata var. ovata
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Viola sagittata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-008:
Viola fimbriatula
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Viola fimbriatula
1647
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Somewhat acidic, well-drained sandy and gravelly soils in glades and prairie-like openings, or on slopes of oak forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to North Carolina
Common in NC Mountains (uncommon in Mountains of GA & SC) (uncommon in NC Piedmont) (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Plant heterophyllous, producing undivided leaf blades in very early spring and late autumn and leaf blades with lobes, coarse teeth or incisions during chasmogamous flowering and cleistogamous fruiting (often retaining one or more undivided blades)
Plant acaulescent (without aerial stems)
Margins crenate (lower few teeth often large & the leaf appearing lobed)
Foliage densely hirtellous,
FLOWER:
Spring
Blue-violet
Bilaterally symmetrical
Lateral petals bearded, spurred occasionally
5 sepals
5 petals
5 stamens
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p032
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p080?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p103?
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p103
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