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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Viola minuscula
FAMILY
Violaceae
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This species is smaller in stature than the very similar V. blanda and V. incognita, with the flowering stalks seldom more than 2-3 inches high. On mountain walks in spring, this species is occasionally encountered, almost always in seepages inside the forests, whereas V. blanda will be seen much more often, away from water. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Its glabrous leaf blades (occasionally with hirtellous petioles) and subentire to very shallowly crenate margins, unspotted cleistogamous capsule on an erect peduncle, and small dark brown to blackish seeds distinguish it from V. blanda and V. incognita. Read more in Weakley's Flora.
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola macloskeyi ssp. pallens
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH A taxonomic treatment of the violets (Violaceae) of the northeastern US and adjacent Canada (Ballard, Kartesz, & Nishino, 2023)
Viola minuscula
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Viola macloskeyi ssp. pallens
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6 (2015)
Viola macloskeyi
INCLUDED WITHIN Violaceae of the Southeastern US (McKinney & Russell, 2002)
Viola macloskeyi
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Viola macloskeyi ssp. pallens
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-013:
Viola macloskeyi var. pallens FAMILY Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Viola pallens
COMMON NAME:
Wild White Violet, White Marsh Violet
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_vipa8_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm230322_1931
March Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
Leaf blades orbicular, mostly broadly rounded at apex, margins subentire to shallowly crenate, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
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JK Marlow jkm230322_1934
March Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
Leaf blades strictly glabrous (petioles may be glabrous or pubescent), per Weakley's Flora (2023).
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JK Marlow jkm230322_1947
March Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
Leaves w blunt apex and basal sinus more open than V. blanda. Upper petals obovate and not twisted, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm230322_1949
March Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
Petals white, lower petal mostly veined with purple. Petals beardless, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Herbarium of Clemson University h_cu25414
April Cherokee County NC
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Herbarium of Clemson University h_cu25414b
April Cherokee County NC
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmvmackloskeyipalle_bm1
May
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Viola minuscula
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola macloskeyi ssp. pallens
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
A taxonomic treatment of the violets (Violaceae) of the northeastern US and adjacent Canada (Ballard, Kartesz, & Nishino, 2023)
Viola minuscula
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Viola macloskeyi ssp. pallens
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6
Viola macloskeyi
INCLUDED WITHIN
Violaceae of the Southeastern US (McKinney & Russell, 2002)
Viola macloskeyi
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Viola macloskeyi ssp. pallens
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-013:
Viola macloskeyi var. pallens
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Viola pallens
1650
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Brookbanks, seepages, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in NC Mountains (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 acaulescent (without aerial stems)
Margins subentire to shallowly crenate
Leaf blade completely glabrous
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Bilaterally symmetrical
Petals beardless
5 sepals
5 petals
5 stamens
FRUIT:
Spring
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962) p010
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p132
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p158
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p053
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p347
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p073
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p096
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p104
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