Viola clauseniana, M.S. Baker

Viola clauseniana, M.S. Baker Description. Illustrations: 3 photographs of Viola clauseniana and 2 drawings. Baker’s original 1938 description of V. clauseniana stated that it is sharply distinguished from any other known violet by the lack of hairs on the inside of any of the petals, the deltoid (triangular) leaf outline and the prostrate habit of…

Viola brittoniana, Pollard

Viola brittoniana Pollard Kim’s unedited notes. Illustrations: 2 photographs of Viola brittoniana and 2 drawings. Bot. Gaz. 26: 332. 1898 TM: Section Nosphinium, subsect. Boreali-Americanae [NEW classification, 2010]. http://plants.usda.gov Plant Images: Distribution by State: CT, DE, MA, NC, NJ, NY, PA, SC, VA. East coast states from North Carolina to Maine, including Pennsylvania, but excluding…

Viola pubescens. Aiton

Viola pubescens. Aiton Kim’s collected notes, unedited.  12 photographs of Viola pubescens and V. pubescens var scabriuscula and 3 drawings. Sect. Chamaemelanium subsect. Nudicaules [Marcussen, 2011]. William Aiton, 1731-1793. 2N=2x=12 (a diploid species), Clausen 1929, IPCN: Love, A. and Love, D., 1982; Canne, J.M., 1987. Pure V. pubescens on Dolerite/diabase in two state game lands in PA,…

Viola sempervirens, Greene

Viola sempervirens, Greene Kim’s notes and references, unedited. Illustrations: 4 photographs of Viola sempervirens and 2 drawings   Viola sempervirens Greene Edward Lee Greene, 1843-1915. ‘sempervirens’ refers to the fact that it is evergreen. syn. Viola sarmentosa Dougl. not Bieb. Produces cleistogenes In SW corner of BC, Canada. For plant details see e-Flora BC website….

Viola affinis, Le Conte

Viola affinis  LeConte. Kim’s notes, re-arranged not edited. Illustrations: 8 photographs of Viola affinis and 4 drawings (3 of Kim’s pencil drawings and notes Small stemless perennial, 5-12 cm high.  Rhizome small ascending to vertical.  Leaves narrowly ovate, tip acuminate, base cordate, glabrous, margins denticulate, 3- 4cm long; stipules colourless to scarious, glabrous, free, margins…

Viola vallicola A. Nelson (abbrev. A. Nels.).

Viola vallicola, A Nels. Kim’s unedited notes. Illustrations: 3 photographs of Viola vallicola, no drawings Aven Nelson, 1859-1952. Sect. Chamaemelanium subsect. Nuttallianae [Marcussen, 2011]. 2N=2x=12, IPCN 86-87, Fabijan, D.M., Packer J.G., & Denford, K.E., 1987. Douglas GW, Straby GB and Meidinger D (eds). Aug 1991. The Vascular Plants of British Columbia, Part 3-Dicots.: www.for.gov.bc/hfd/pubs/Docs/Srs03/Srs03-2.pdf: Viola…

Viola utahensis MS Baker & JC Clausen.

Viola utahensis MS Baker & JC Clausen. Description. Illustrations: 2 photographs of Viola utahensis and 1 drawing. Leafl. W. Bot. 5: 145. 1949. Isotype CAS, collected 8 May 1937, B. Maguire 16026. Sect. Chamaemelanium subsect. Nuttallianae [Marcussen, 2011]. V. utahensis has no hairs on the inside of the lateral petals, also attenuate bases to leaves….

Viola tripartita Elliott

Viola tripartita Ell. var. glaberrima (DC.) Harper Kim’s notes and references. Illustrations: 6 photographs of Viola tripartita and 3 drawings (including Kim’s field notes) Stephen Elliot, 1771-1830. Sect. Chamaemelanium subsect. Nudicaules [Marcussen, 2011]. Rare. ?? Threatened, endangered, in some places wiped out already. Extinct (extirpated) in PA.: www.dickinson.edu/prorg/pabs/vascular_plants.htm. Harvey Ballard said there was a recent…

Viola tomentosa, M.S. Baker & J.C. Clausen

Viola tomentosa Kim’s unedited notes (key). Illustrations: 2 photographs of Viola tomentosa and 1 drawing Baker, M.S. & Clausen, J.C., Leafl. W. Bot. 5:142. 1949 Two collection dates of Isosyntypes in DS: 9 Jul 1937 and 5 Aug 1937; also several isosyntypes in CAS but undated. 2N=12, IPCN 86-87, Fabijan, D.M., Packer J.G., & Denford,…

Viola rotundifolia Michx.

Viola rotundifolia Michx. Kim’s notes, re-ordered but unedited. Illustrations: 6 photographs of Viola rotunda and 1 drawing. 2n=2x=12 (a diploid species). Andre Michaux, 1746-1802.   (From Kim’s article for NARGS): Viola rotundifolia is the only yellow flowered viola in North America that is stemless at the time of flowering. It is also the earliest viola…