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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Viola sororia var. sororia
FAMILY
Violaceae
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Read more about this familiar violet at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola sororia
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Viola (Ballard [in prep])
Viola sororia
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Viola sororia
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6 (2015)
Viola sororia
SYNONYMOUS WITH Violaceae of the Southeastern US (McKinney & Russell, 2002)
Viola sororia var. sororia
INCLUDING VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-003 & 005b:
Viola palmata var. sororia FAMILY Violaceae
INCLUDING (MISAPPLIED) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968)
Viola papilionacea
INCLUDING (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Viola papilionacea
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Viola priceana
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Viola sororia
COMMON NAME:
Dooryard Violet, Confederate Violet, Common Blue Violet
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_vila7_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_vipa5_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_viso_001_lvd
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Herbarium of Clemson University h_cu25280
March Jasper County SC
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JK Marlow jkm0403n_35
March Greenville County SC
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmvpapillionacea_and3
March Anderson County SC
Blue-violet flowers bearded with tufts of hairs on the lateral petals, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmvsorroria_sta2
March Oconee County SC
Oconee Station/Station Cove
About V. palmata var. sororia, "Pubescent or at least the petioles pubescent", per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmvsorroria_sta3
March Oconee County SC
Oconee Station/Station Cove
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_viola_sororia_4
March
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Keith Bradley kab_viola_sororia_0652
April Transylvania County NC
Leaves more or less ovate or broadly heart-shaped, on long stalks, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Keith Bradley kab_viola_sororia_1126
April Polk County NC
Included in this entity is the familiar Confederate Violet, var. priceana, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Tim Spira tpsvsororia2
April
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Herbarium of Clemson University h_cu25281b
May Laurens County SC
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Herbarium of Clemson University h_cu30808
May Charleston County
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Viola sororia var. sororia
FAMILY
Violaceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola sororia
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Viola (Ballard [in prep])
Viola sororia
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Viola sororia
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 6
Viola sororia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Violaceae of the Southeastern US (McKinney & Russell, 2002)
Viola sororia var. sororia
INCLUDING
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 130-02-003 & 005b:
Viola palmata var. sororia
FAMILY
Violaceae
INCLUDING (MISAPPLIED)
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968)
Viola papilionacea
INCLUDING (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Viola papilionacea
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Viola priceana
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Viola sororia
1652
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Loam or clay soils in dry-mesic to wet-mesic forests, higher ground and terraces or borders of bottomlands, and lawns and other anthropogenically modified sites formerly with native vegetation, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common
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 crenate-serrate
Leaf blade glabrous or essentially so, or with scattered pubescence
FLOWER:
Spring
Bluish/Violet/White
Bilaterally symmetrical
Lateral petals bearded
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) p032
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p030
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p413
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p193
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p052
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p155
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p353
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p080
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p103
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011) p467
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p103
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