3441

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)

Look for it in rich, dry-mesic and dry upland forests, probably associated with mafic rocks, per Weakley's Flora

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...Dry

LEAVES:
Simple
Plant acaulescent (without aerial stems)
Leaf blade pubescent

FLOWER:
Spring
Blue-violet
Bilaterally symmetrical
Lateral petals bearded
5 sepals
5 petals
5 included stamens

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Wildflowers of Tennessee p076?
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p099?

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Viola subsinuata   FAMILY Violaceae

(?) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola triloba var. dilatata   FAMILY Violaceae

GREATER THAN Viola (Ballard [in prep])
Viola palmata var. dilatata

LESS THAN Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Viola palmata var. palmata