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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Viola egglestonii
FAMILY
Violaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola egglestonii
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH A taxonomic treatment of the violets (Violaceae) of the northeastern US and adjacent Canada (Ballard, Kartesz, & Nishino, 2023)
Viola egglestonii
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Viola egglestonii
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6 (2015)
Viola egglestonii
SYNONYMOUS WITH Violaceae of the Southeastern US (McKinney & Russell, 2002)
Viola septemloba ssp. egglestonii
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Viola egglestonii
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Viola palmata var. pedatifida
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Viola egglestoni
COMMON NAME:
Eggleston's Violet, Nashville Violet, Cedar Glade Violet
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Herbarium of Clemson University h_cu25429
March Marion County TN
Leaf blades about as broad as long, or broader, with 5-9 deep divisions, per Weakley's Flora.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Viola egglestonii
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola egglestonii
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
A taxonomic treatment of the violets (Violaceae) of the northeastern US and adjacent Canada (Ballard, Kartesz, & Nishino, 2023)
Viola egglestonii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Viola egglestonii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6
Viola egglestonii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Violaceae of the Southeastern US (McKinney & Russell, 2002)
Viola septemloba ssp. egglestonii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Viola egglestonii
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Viola palmata var. pedatifida
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Viola egglestoni
3432
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: calcareous barrens and glades, also in disturbed calcareous sites, including pastures, roadsides, and lawns, per Weakley's Flora
Native to Georgia
Rare
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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)
Leaf blade glabrous or glabrate
FLOWER:
Spring
Blue-violet
Bilaterally symmetrical
Lateral petals bearded, spurred occasionally
5 sepals
5 petals
5 included stamens
FRUIT:
Spring?
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p075
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p098
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p103?
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