NameThatPlant.net: Viola emarginata var. emarginata

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

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Weakley (2018) included this within V. sagittata, but his 2020 version has it split back out again. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6 (2015)

Viola sagittata var. sagittata

INCLUDED WITHIN The Plants of Pennsylvania (Rhoads & Block, 2007)

Viola sagittata

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-010?:

Viola emarginata var. emarginata FAMILY Violaceae

COMMON NAME:
Triangle-leaved Violet

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Viola emarginata var. emarginata FAMILY Violaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6
Viola sagittata var. sagittata

INCLUDED WITHIN The Plants of Pennsylvania (Rhoads & Block, 2007)
Viola sagittata

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-010?:
Viola emarginata var. emarginata FAMILY Violaceae

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Habitat: Somewhat acidic, well-drained sandy soils in oak and oak-pine forests, and open sites along forest borders and roadsides adjacent to open woodlands, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in Carolina Piedmont & NC Coastal Plain (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)
Leaves glabrous

FLOWER:
Spring
Blue-violet
Bilaterally symmetrical
Spurred and lateral petals bearded
5 sepals
5 petals
5 stamens

FRUIT:
Spring
Capsule

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