OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Malpighiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Viola fimbriatula   FAMILY Violaceae   Go to FSUS key



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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image of Viola fimbriatula, Ovate-leaf Violet, Northern Downy Violet, Sand Violet

JK Marlow    jkm190427_7988

April    Jackson County    SC

Blue Ridge Parkway

image of Viola fimbriatula, Ovate-leaf Violet, Northern Downy Violet, Sand Violet

JK Marlow    jkm190427_7989

April    Jackson County    SC

Blue Ridge Parkway

image of Viola fimbriatula, Ovate-leaf Violet, Northern Downy Violet, Sand Violet

JK Marlow    jkm190427_7992

April    Jackson County    SC

Blue Ridge Parkway

image of Viola fimbriatula, Ovate-leaf Violet, Northern Downy Violet, Sand Violet

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).

image of Viola fimbriatula, Ovate-leaf Violet, Northern Downy Violet, Sand Violet

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.

image of Viola fimbriatula, Ovate-leaf Violet, Northern Downy Violet, Sand Violet

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmvfimbriatula_dch

May        

Petals bluish violet, usually white toward the base, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Viola fimbriatula, Ovate-leaf Violet, Northern Downy Violet, Sand Violet

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

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)

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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

 

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